CMS Photos During Construction

The installation of one of the end caps.

 View of one endcap of the CMS detector, including Calorimeters and Muon Detectors.  Purdue scientists have been involved in the design, construction, and installation of these and other parts of CMS.  The US has committed major manpower and money to the construction and operation of the CMS experiment which involves eight professors at Purdue.

View of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment Tracker Outer Barrel (TOB) in the cleaning room. The CMS is one of two general-purpose LHC experiments designed to explore the physics of the Terascale, the energy region where physicists believe they will find answers to the central questions at the heart of 21st-century particle physics.

Installation underground: the CMS Central Muon disk and the Superconducting Solenoid Magnet in its cryostat can, inside of which is the Barrel Hadron Calorimeter awaiting installation of the lead tungstate crystal Electromagnetic Calorimeter and the Silicon Tracking System.

View of one end of the CMS detector during installation.

Installation into the CMS experiment of one half of the 60 million channel silicon pixel detector fabricated at Purdue. The pipe is the evacuated beam pipe where the protons circulate and the pixel detector is made in two half cylinders which wrap around the beam.

View of part of the computing center.