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Large Hadron Collider ready to restart this weekend
London
Telegraph
Thursday, Nov 19th, 2009
The world's largest atom smasher – a giant
scientific instrument that was designed to recreate the big
bang but was broken by a piece of bread dropped by a passing
bird. – has been repaired and scientists hope to restart
it this weekend.
The 27-kilometre (16.8 mile) LHC suffered serious
overheating in several sections after the small piece of baguette
landed in a piece of equipment on the surface above the accelerator
ring.
Dr Mike Lamont, the LHC’s Machine Coordinator, said that
a “a bit of baguette”, believed to have been dropped
by a bird, caused the superconducting magnets to heat up from
1.9 Kelvin (-271.1C) to around 8 Kelvin (-265C), near the mark
where they stop superconducting.
The 'Big Bang' machine was launched with great fanfare last
year before its spectacular failure.
This time the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known
as CERN, is taking a cautious approach with the super-sophisticated
equipment, said James Gillies, a spokesman. It cost about $10
billion, with contributions from many governments and universities
around the world.
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