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Large Hadron Collider to restart in fall after 1-year hiatus
The magnet core of the world’s largest superconducting solenoid magnet, seen in 2007, is part of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator. Abnormally high resistances were found in the accelerator’s high-current superconducting electrical connections and have since been repaired. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone/Associated Press)The world’s largest particle accelerator is scheduled to gradually start up again in November after being shut down for more than a year.
The $9-billion project was shut down on Sept. 19, 2008, after just nine days of operation. The meltdown of a small electrical connection had caused the release of a large amount of liquid helium into the 27-kilometre long tunnel, near the Franco-Swiss border. Its restart date has been delayed several times since then.
Heuer said the machine is now “a much better understood machine than it was a year ago.” CERN expects to run the collider at 3.5 TeV for several weeks until a “significant data sample” has been collected, then gradually increase the energy to 5 TeV per beam. It expects to run a test with lead ions at the end of 2010 before shutting the machine down again in an effort to get it ready to move towards its maximum power.”
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I have always had an interest in physics. It is a shame that numbers and equations cause my brain to 404 faster than you can say ‘system error’. I hope that that once they fire up the LHC they can start earnestly looking for the elusive higgs-boson that so far has eluded them. It would be one of those fantastic cornerstone discoveries that has the potential to change the face of physics. Grab the original article from the CBC here.
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