LHC is Having Teething Issues
Apparently I missed some of the recent LHC news, it looks like it is going to be switched off for a while…
What happened to the Big Bang machine?
The fault that has shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be hugely disappointing for scientists and engineers following the successful “start-up” of the experiment.
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The failure on 19 September – described as a “massive” magnet quench – certainly seems dramatic: it caused the temperatures in about 100 of the LHC’s super-cooled magnets to soar by as much as 100C.
The fire brigade had to be called after a tonne of liquid helium leaked out into the LHC tunnel.
