Cern’s LHC delayed again
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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For those scared that Cern’s Large Hadron Collider will lead to the end of the world, the news that the LHC’s restart has been delayed a few more months will sound like a stay of execution.
Just weeks after its start-up last year, a fault ended the collider’s work. While it was supposed to be started up again in July, the first beams will now be sent around the 27-kilometer track by the end of September, with collisions kicking off in October.
According to Cern, the delay was caused by a new “enhanced protection system” for busbar and magnet splices — whatever they are — as well as new valves to prevent the fault from recurring.
There’s also apparently been trouble with arranging the transport and storage of enough helium — these are not problems we here at IT PRO regularly face…
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Loading ...Comment by - February 11, 2009 on 10:50 am
Whatever the excuses they are giving, it still sounds like one big technical way of saying “Switch it off and on again”.
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