Jefferson Lab Site Tour
Experimental Equipment Lab - Detector Assembly Clean Room
You are inside a special clean room where some of Jefferson Lab's detectors are put together. Technicians are making a taco-shaped drift chamber by stringing thousands of hair-thin wires between the two flat plates. The wires are strung one at a time, all by hand! Drift chambers like these are used to observe the flight of particles in the physicists' experiments.
This tour reflects Jefferson Lab as it was in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In particular, this predates the 12 GeV upgrade and the addition of Hall D. For a modern look at the Lab, please see the Jeffeson Lab Virtual Tour.
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