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In 1972, the OMEGA spectrometer was commissioned in the West Area and more than a million collisions were recorded that very first year.

OMEGA was equipped with spark chambers - replaced at the end of the 1970s by electronic detectors - and a 15 000-tonne superconducting magnet. On this photo we can see the magnet's lower coil and, in the foreground, the support plate for the upper coil. No fewer than 48 experiments made use of...

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Autor principal: CERN PhotoLab
Publicado: 1972
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/41545