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The central "barrel" calorimeter moved to centre of the detector

The central "barrel" calorimeter was moved from its assembly point at the side of the ATLAS cavern to the centre of the detector (within toroidal magnet system). The detector was aligned, to a precision of less than a millimetre.

barrel calorimeter
The central calorimeter near the center of the ATLAS detector.


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