Image Gallery

Vacuum System




New IO tube at LLO New IO tube at LLO Moving the LHO X arm BSC, 7/2011



HAM's exposed by removal of an output tube Removing an output tube Moving the LHO Y arm BSC, 6/2011


Views of the Livingston vertex area




Large gate valves are visible above the beam pipes to either side of the chambers
Ion pumps mounted on the beam tube
Inner test mass vacuum chamber with adjacent gate valve


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