View of AMS cleaning room and arrival of the new magnet 2010 AMS stands for “Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer”. It is a particle-physics detector that looks for dark matter, antimatter and missing matter from a module attached to the outside of the International Space Station. It also performs precision measurements of cosmic rays. PHOTOLAB

ATLAS 7 TeV Collision Events recorded, March 30th, 2010 2010 PHOTOLAB

CMS Events 2010 PHOTOLAB

LHCb events 2010 PHOTOLAB

ALICE Events 2010 PHOTOLAB

ALICE Collision at 2.36 TeV. 2009 PHOTOLAB

AMS leaves CERN. 2010 PHOTOLAB

First 2.36 TeV Collision Events recorded by the ATLAS experiment, December 8th and 14th, 2009 2009 On Tuesday evening, December 8th, 2009, the LHC achieved for the first time 2.36 TeV collisions and ATLAS recorded their first events at this record energy. More events at this energy were taken on December 14th in the early morning. PHOTOLAB

First 900 GeV Collision Events in Stable-Beam Conditions with Inner Detector Fully Powered, December 6, 2009 2009 On Sunday morning, Dec 6, 2009, the LHC achieved for the first time 900 GeV collisions under stable-beam conditions. This allowed ATLAS to fully ramp the high voltage of the inner most pixel and silicon-strip tracking detectors. The following displays show events from run 141749 taken during this period. PHOTOLAB

First Alice Proton-Proton Collisions at 900 GeV. 2009 Picture 1 : First proton-proton collision seen by ALICE, 23 November 2009. Pictures 2-4 : Proton-Proton collisions seen by ALICE with all detectors on. Pictures -6 : First muon events seen by ALICE PHOTOLAB

View of CASTOR/TOTEM mounted inside CMS detector and view of the beam pipe. 2009 PHOTOLAB

View of the CMS detector with castor experiment open in the middle. 2009 PHOTOLAB

Some of the first candidate collisions in CMS from 900 GeV running (450+450) of the LHC. Recorded on 6th December 2009 Images 1 and 2 include a muon produced in the collision that is tracked through the silicon tracker (strips and pixels) to the muon detectors. Images 3-6 show a typical "jet" event PHOTOLAB

Welding interconnections inside a dipole magnet in sector 3-4 of the LHC tunnel 2009 PHOTOLAB

CMS collision events: first 900GeV collisions, 23rd Nov 2009 CMS P5 2009 PHOTOCMS

First 900 GeV Candidate Collision Events observed at the ATLAS experiment, November 23rd, 2009 2009 PHOTOLAB

CMS collision events: LHC restart 2009 CMS P5 2009 PHOTOCMS

CMS events - Restart 2009 2009 More news photo and Illustration on http://cms.web.cern.ch/cms/index.html PHOTOLAB

ALICE events - Restart LHC 2009 2009 More news and pictures & videos on http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/en/Chapter1/news.html PHOTOLAB

The LHC accelerator in the tunnel 2009 PHOTOLAB

Cabling of the 5 remaining Rutherford cables at Brugg Kabelwerk 2002 After repair of the cabling machine, the 5 remaing Rutherford cables have been successfully cabled. PHOTOCMS

Russian Collaboration on Point5 (CMS) 2002 PHOTOLAB

Installation of first 80 ton slice of HE-1 2002 The first 80 tonne slice of HE-1 has been installed on the support tube of HE-1. PHOTOCMS

CMS end-cap yoke at the detector's assembly site. 2002 The magnetic flux generated by the superconducting coil in the CMS detector is returned via an iron yoke comprising three end-cap discs at each end (end-cap yoke) and five concentric cylinders (barrel yoke). This picture shows the first of three end-cap discs (red) seen through the outer cylinder of the vacuum tank which will house the superconducting coil. PHOTOLAB

ISPA (imaging silicon pixel array) experiment 2002 The bump-bonded silicon pixel detector, developed at CERN by the EP-MIC group, is shown here in its ceramic carrier. Both represent the ISPA-tube anode. The chip features between 1024 (called OMEGA-1) and 8196 (ALICE-1) active pixels. PHOTOLAB

ALICE TPC Inner Readout Chamber Schmidt Hans Rudolf 2002 ALICE TPC Inner Readout Chamber built at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany PHOTOALICE

Prototype ROD board for the ATLAS LVL1 end-cap muon trigger Levinson L 2001 PHOTOATLAS

Conductor way-out Mock-up. September 2001 First trial of bending. Tensile Stress 120 Kg 2001 Conductor way-out Mock-up. September 2001 First trial of bending. Tensile Stress 120 Kg Conductor tightened without fibre glass. PHOTOCMS

ALEPH experiment dismantling 2001 PHOTOLAB

MIROD board for ATLAS level-1 MUCTPI demonstrator prototype Schuler G. 2000 MIROD board for ATLAS level-1 MUCTPI demonstrator prototype PHOTOATLAS

Electrostatic focusing quadrupole 1970 Full-scale model of the electristatic focusing quadrupole for the (g-2) experiment. PHOTOLAB

Polarized proton target 1970 The cryostat of the polarized proton using 3He cooling where high polarizations have been achieved. PHOTOLAB

View of the photogrammetric targets for the first YE1 at KHI. 2000 View of the photogrammetric targets for the first YE1 at KHI. Céline Humbertclaude and Raphaël Goudard have instructed KHI personnel in the photogrammetric technique. PHOTOCMS

MCS Sextupole Corrector for LHC dipoles 2000 PHOTOLAB

<60>mm tungsten prototype source with radiators + and cold line C2O base for Isolde experiment<60> mm prototype tungsten source with radiators and cold line C2O base for Isolde ExperimentPrototype 60 mm tungsten source with radiators and C2O base + Cold line for the ISOLDE experiment 1999 PHOTOLAB

Cabling for the readout of the DC's and PC's 1991 The picture has been made during the winter shutdown of 91-92. PHOTOCPLEAR

Overview of the downstream side of the complete CPLEAR detector 1991 The picture has been made during the winter shutdown of 91-92. PHOTOCPLEAR

View of the CPLEAR detector after installation of the Drift Chambers: the electronic cabling has still to be done 1991 The picture has been made during the winter shutdown of 91-92. See also the picture 99-007. PHOTOCPLEAR

Cloud Experiment. View inside the chamber with Jasper Kirkby, Head leader of the project. 2009 CLOUD, the cutting-edge physics experiment that will shed light on climate-related matters, has finished its assembly phase and is starting taking data using a beam of protons from the Proton Synchrotron. PHOTOLAB

LHCb Computer room surface 2009 PHOTOLAB

First Ions to ALICE 2009 Lead beam injection test on 28 September 2009 PHOTOLAB

ALICE get's its first upgrade. 2009 PHOTOLAB

Installation of the world's largest silicon tracking detector in the CMS experiment 2007 Installation of the CMS silicon tracking detector was successfully completed on 18 December 2007. The CMS Silicon Strip Tracking Detector began its journey from the main CERN site to the CMS experimental facility in Cessy on 13 December. Later that day it was lowered 90 metres into the CMS cavern. Installation began on 15 December and was concluded three days later. PHOTOLAB

LHC Computing Grid Globe into the computer center. 2009 PHOTOLAB

The AMS superconducting magnet arrives at CERN 2008 Arrival of the AMS superconducting magnet at CERN from Scientifics Magnetics Ltd. Company, Oxford, GB PHOTOLAB

Artistic view of the RICH detector assembled into AMS experiment at CERN 2008 PHOTOLAB

View of the RICH detector assembled into AMS experiment at CERN 2008 PHOTOLAB

Different angles of the LHCb cavern on August 2008 2008 PHOTOLAB

An automated magnetic tape vault at CERN computer center 2008 The rapidly changing data processing landscape the underlying long-term storage technology remains the tried and tested magnetic tape. This robust and mature technology is used to store the complete LHC data set, from which a fraction of the data is copied to overlying disk caches for fast and widespread access. The handling of the magnetic tape cartridges is now fully automated, as they are racked in vaults where they are moved between the storage shelves and the tape drives by robotic arms. PHOTOLAB

View of CERN`s computer center 2008 PHOTOLAB

The team behind the Grid Cafe 2008 PHOTOLAB

Collimater for LHC 2008 PHOTOLAB

A cross-section image of CMS showing debris (or "splash") of particles entering the detector when the LHC beam was steered into the collimator (tungsten block) at point 5, at around 9:50am, September 10 2008 The energy deposits in the electromagnetic (pink) and hadronic (blue) calorimeters are visible. Hits in the resistive plate chamber muon (RPC) system in green and drift-tube (red) are also seen. PHOTOLAB

A view of TOTEM's silicon detectors 2008 PHOTOLAB

Reconstructed tracks in the ALICE TPC of a cosmic shower event from the muon absorber. Lippmann Christian 2008 Reconstructed tracks in the ALICE Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of a cosmic shower event from the muon absorber. PHOTOALICE

After the installation of the ALICE silicon pixel detector 2007 PHOTOLAB

A collection of ATLAS collision event in which a microscopic-black-hole was produced in the collision of two protons 2008 PHOTOLAB

Computer generated image of the ATLAS inner detector 2008 PHOTOLAB

Computer generated images of the Pixel, part of the ATLAS inner detector. 2008 PHOTOLAB

ATLAS retina project 2007 The 512 electrode array, inspired by silicon microstrip detector technology in ATLAS, records the electrical activity of retinal neurones. PHOTOLAB

View from above of the Calorimeter End-cap and Barrel open 2007 PHOTOLAB