LHCb ring imaging Cherenkov detector mirrors
The mirrors of one of the two Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors of the LHCb experiment are meticulously assembled in a clean room (© 2005-2017 CERN)

LHCb ring imaging Cherenkov detector mirrors

In a large dark room, men in white move around an immense structure some 7 m high, 10 m wide and nearly 2.5 m deep. Apparently effortlessly, they are installing the two large high-precision spherical mirrors. These mirrors will focus Cherenkov light, created by the charged particles that will traverse this detector, onto the photon detectors.