View of the ALICE detector with the door open
View of the ALICE detector with the door open (© 2006-2017 CERN)

View of the ALICE detector with the door open

The huge iron yoke in the cavern at Point 2 in the LHC tunnel is prepared for the installation of the ALICE experiment. The yoke is being reused from the previous L3 experiment that was located at the same point during the LEP project from 1989 to 2000. ALICE will be inserted piece by piece into the cradle where it will be used to study collisions between two beams of lead ions.