Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
News The first attempt to send a full beam around the LHC, at an energy of 0.45TeV (teraelectronvolts), will take place on 10 September. The second and final test of the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC's) beam synchronisation systems took place on Friday...
[August 26, 2008, 12:16]
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. The LHC, which is out of action after a short circuit last September, had been cooled to its operating...
[November 6, 2009, 16:22]
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]
Solidarity
Downloads Works on both color and grayscale devices.Play "America the Beautiful" and "God Bless America" whenever the urge strikes.Check "Stay on in cradle" on some rechargeable devices to display your flag when your device is in a recharging cradle.Use the...
[September 23, 2001, 8:00]
Solidarity
Downloads Easily beam Solidarity to other Palm users. Note: The beam count will always be zero for users who download the app from the web, but users who receive it through beaming will see how many times their copy was beamed before it reached them.
[October 8, 2001, 8:00]
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]
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]
Vacuum leaks lead to more Hadron Collider delays
News The repair work will not have an impact on the vacuum in the beam pipe. The LHC experiment, which is designed to answer fundamental questions about the nature of matter, had to be halted nine days after it became fully operational last September...
[July 21, 2009, 13:00]
Cern plans gentle restart for LHC in November
News The collider, located deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, will start running at an energy level of 3.5 trillion electron volts (TeV) per beam, about half the energy that Cern eventually expects to use.
[August 10, 2009, 11:30]
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]
UK scientists express joy at LHC switch-on
News On the morning of Wednesday, 10 September, 2008, the first particle beam was successfully sent around the full circuit of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern).
[September 10, 2008, 13:03]
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 world's largest particle collider has been shut down for at least two months due to a large helium leak stemming...
[September 22, 2008, 8:18]
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]
CERN steps up to massive storage challenge
News Each beam fires 3,000 bundles of 100 billion protons, whose paths are bent round the circuit by supercooled (-271°C) superconducting magnets, and are made to collide at the centre of four detectors in the tunnel.
[September 6, 2006, 10:50]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Only if Dr Evil has a thing for sharks with frickin' laser beams in their heads, he'll probably want to steal the MX1000 - it's a mouse with a frickin' laser beam. That's what Logitech must be thinking: it has a big surprise for us all planned for...
[August 27, 2004, 17:20]
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. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), built to smash atoms and enable the study of subatomic...
[October 17, 2008, 16:13]
'Flying' micro-robot developed by researchers
News The robot is an obstacle for the laser beam in space, and its position can be read. Mustafa Yavuz, submitted the paper to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for consideration for...
[April 9, 2009, 18:29]
