The LHCb Installation Story February 2002 – August 2008 Slides by R.Lindner EDMS 980 836
February 2002 Cavern ready for detector installation
May 2002 August 2002
January 2003 Start of the LHCb installation with the dipole magnet
June 2004 Start of Muon filter assembly
October 2004 Magnet assembled
November 2004 Additional rails for the Calorimeter system
February 2005 Cavern before Calorimeter installation
March 2005 Piling up ECAL modules
April 2005 First HCAL module installed
May 2005 RICH 1 shielding approaches finial position
June 2005 Electromagnetic , Hadronic Calorimeter & Muon Filter
July 2005 Calorimeter just before completion
November 2005 RICH 2 moves into its position
December 2005 Installation of Muon towers
May 2006 VeLo tank moves in
Spring 2006 PS/SPD installation
June 2006 Installation of OT bridge
June 2006 Installation of OT bridge
June 2006 RICH 1 gas enclosure
October 2006 Installation of Inner Tracker frames
October 2006 Start of Outer Tracker installation
November 2006 First Muon chambers on the wall
December 2006 Start of Trigger Tracker installation
February 2007 Beam pipe installation
June 2007
April 2008 VELO detector installation October 2007 VeLo detector halves
February 2008 TT Module installation
July 2008 Closing the detectors
August 2008
and all of you who made it happen !!! Experimental Area Team Many Thanks and all of you who made it happen !!!