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December 24, 2008

Bubble Chamber

Physicist Mike Crisler inspects the bubble chamber of the Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP) experiment. COUPP is located at Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics.

For more information, visit the project's Web page, Here. [The building of the COUPP experiment was supported in part by National Science Foundation grants PHY 02-39812, PHY 07-07298, PHY 05-55472 and PHY 0114422, awarded to individual principal investigators. The COUPP collaboration is funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.] (Date of Image: May 2005)

Credit: Fermilab


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