The 'picket fence' of scintillation counters used to select two-particle events in the CERN, Munich experiment (S94) studying bosons. Just behind the fence can be seen the last of the magnetostrictive wire chambers used to detect the particle paths. A large aperture spectrometer magnet is obscured by the wire chamber.
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