Cern's Large Hadron Collider powers up
News Within one hour, a particle beam had been successfully circulated through the machine. Wednesday saw the first attempt to circulate a particle beam around the entire ring, but no attempt was be made to create collisions on this date.
[September 10, 2008, 0:01]
LHC restart pushed back further
News According to the document, written by Jorg Weninger, a member of the operations group, 'Plan A' called for a restart of the experiment in late summer 2009, with the beam energy and intensity limited to minimise the risk of another accident.
[November 28, 2008, 13:47]
Hadron Collider shut down until early spring
News The collider was officially launched on 10 September when the first particle beam was successfully sent around the full circuit. Cern director general Robert Aymar said in a press release that the delay was "undoubtedly a psychological blow", but...
[September 24, 2008, 9:36]
Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
News The second and final test of the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC's) beam synchronisation systems took place on Friday evening in a tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border, according to a Monday statement from the European Organization for Nuclear...
[August 26, 2008, 12:16]
BodyTechnic: Cancer treatment spares healthy tissue
News The photon radiosurgery system (PRS) uses an NEC V25+ 16bit CISC microcontroller with an enhanced X86 instruction to control a beam of therapeutic radiation delivered to tumour sites. Baum remains optimistic that the system will replace...
[December 3, 1998, 14:19]
Baguette 'dropped by bird' causes LHC disruption
News Had a particle beam been circling the machine, the energy of the beam would have been dumped into graphite blocks encased in concrete. A piece of bread dropped on an outdoor electrical installation on Monday caused disruption to the world's largest...
[November 6, 2009, 16:22]
Date set for Large Hadron Collider launch
News The first attempt to circulate a beam of particles around the tunnel will take place on 10 September, according to a Thursday statement by the LHC's builders, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern).
[August 8, 2008, 12:41]
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News The particle beam machine, located at the border between France and Switzerland, was first powered up on 10 September, but the experiment had to be closed down on 19 September after a malfunction caused a leak of liquid helium.
[October 3, 2008, 14:07]
LHC disaster.
Talkback To keep the project on schedule, the team running the accelerator near Geneva have decided to skip a planned test run at an intermediate energy and re-start the LHC in 2009 at the full beam energy of 7 TeV.
[October 21, 2008, 21:23]
Large Hadron Collider faces two-month shutdown
News The collider was officially launched on 10 September when the first particle beam was successfully sent around the full circuit. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a gigantic particle accelerator located in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel along...
[September 22, 2008, 8:18]
Faulty transformer downs Large Hadron Collider
News Since the beginning of the week, the cryogenics team has been busy recooling the magnets and preparing for operation with beam, which is currently forecast for today [Thursday]. The LHC, a massive particle accelerator, 17 miles in circumference and...
[September 19, 2008, 8:07]
LHC on course for November restart
News Within two weeks, scientists will inject a beam of protons into the LHC and guide them around the first sector. The first beam collisions are predicted for mid-November and will take place at half a tera electron volt (TeV), said Gillies.
[October 5, 2009, 14:05]
Revived LHC could run through the winter
News There is 350MJ stored in each beam, which Cern scientists estimate has enough energy to drill a 30m hole in copper. The European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) flagship particle accelerator has been out of action since September, when an...
[May 27, 2009, 17:02]
Cern: Electrical fault caused LHC helium leak
News This confirmed the location of the electrical arc, and revealed contamination by soot-like dust over some distance in the beam pipes, Cern said in a statement. Cern has confirmed that an electrical fault was the cause of a liquid helium leak in its...
[October 17, 2008, 16:13]
LHC - what actually happens when superconducting magnets go wrong...
Blog A bit more than just "a poor solder connection" (though clearly still not good, and I believe magnets are generally trained *before* installing them in the beam tunnel). Bad electrical connection" is a layman's explanation of what accelerator...
[October 30, 2008, 14:23]
