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LHC on course for November restart
News James Gillies, head of communications for Cern, told ZDNet UK on Monday that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would probably be ready to collide beams of particles by mid-November. Within two weeks, scientists will inject a beam of protons into the...
[October 5, 2009, 14:05]
Culprit found for latest LHC leaks
News The hose vented helium into the vacuum insulation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Cern officials suspect. Cern has revised the restart date of the LHC several times since the experiment was put out of action last September by an electrical fault.
[August 3, 2009, 16:01]
LHC disaster.
Talkback September 24, 2008 - 'LHC on hold until spring of 2009' - PhysicsWorld.com: "The magnet failure last week at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) means that the accelerator will not be up and running again until early spring of 2009, say officials at...
[October 21, 2008, 21:23]
LHC Win: Beaming smiles all round
Blog When the LHC is going full steam, there will be 40m collisions of particles every second, so an hour may seem a long time - but remember this was the very first time the beam made it fully round the circuit, and its progress was relatively...
[September 10, 2008, 11:15]
LHC cooled to operational temperatures
News The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said on Friday that the final sector of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had reached 1.9K. The LHC had to be decommissioned last September, after a fault in a copper splice in the machine led to...
[October 19, 2009, 14:56]
LHC restart now on hold until September
News LHC operations were suspended last September after a transformer malfunction in its cooling system allowed a helium leak — just nine days after the project became operational. At the time, the repair costs for the LHC were expected to be as much as...
[February 10, 2009, 8:23]
LHC - what actually happens when superconducting magnets go wrong...
Blog I came across a very interesting explanation of what actually happens in an incident such as the one which felled the LHC, from Vern Paxson, vern@icir.org. He worked on software for the 1980s big science experiment, the Superconducting Super...
[October 30, 2008, 14:23]
LHC restart pushed back again
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been offline since an incident on 19 September last year, when an equipment failure caused extensive damage. Cern has revised its LHC restart date a number of times.
[June 22, 2009, 13:38]
LHC restart date now June at earliest
News The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), which runs the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), previously suggested the apparatus would be restarted in April. The LHC is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel nestled beneath the Swiss-French...
[November 18, 2008, 14:44]
LHC restart pushed back further
News The LHC was shut down in September, nine days after it was first fully powered up, following a helium leak caused by an electrical fault. Cern director Robert Aymar said in October that the LHC would come back online at the beginning of April 2009...
[November 28, 2008, 13:47]
It's not just the LHC that could rewrite physics
Blog And there's the rather entertaining prospect that what comes out of the LHC will mesh with all the anomalies and provide a whole new way of looking at the world. There's more than one way to pick apart the fabric of space and time.
[August 30, 2008, 14:06]
Cern plans gentle restart for LHC in November
News The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in November at a level it says will not overtax the machinery behind the giant particle physics experiment, which has experienced a year of...
[August 10, 2009, 11:30]
Baguette 'dropped by bird' causes LHC disruption
News The short circuit caused a power failure which affected a quarter of the 27km Large Hadron Collider (LHC) circuit, said the spokesperson. The LHC, which is out of action after a short circuit last September, had been cooled to its operating...
[November 6, 2009, 16:22]
Cern: Electrical fault caused LHC helium leak
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), built to smash atoms and enable the study of subatomic particles, was shut down on 19 September due to a malfunction, only nine days after it was powered up. This resulted in mechanical damage, and a release of...
[October 17, 2008, 16:13]
Cern bombards LHC grid with data
News From these centres, data is dispatched to over 140 centres in 33 countries around the globe, where the LHC data is managed and processed. LHC computing-grid project leader Ian Bird said on Friday that Cern had tried to break the grid, but had not...
[July 3, 2009, 16:07]
Revived LHC could run through the winter
News On Wednesday, James Gillies, head of communications at Cern, said that the LHC could carry on running over the subsequent months. Cern is able to cover the energy cost of running the LHC during outside its schedule because it had had less...
[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]
The heart of the LHC is more than science
Leader Fortunately for Cern's chief technology officer, Sverre Jarp, that risk is far smaller than anything the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will ever measure. The same will be true of the LHC's IT. But LHC stands for more than that.
[September 10, 2008, 15:49]
A look at the damage that halted the LHC
News On Friday, the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) released photos of damage to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Cern's flagship particle accelerator. This picture shows two of the most severely broken interconnects, which are between the...
[December 10, 2008, 15:55]
It's not just the LHC that could rewrite physics
Blog Comment Cool! What I find especially interesting is that the period of decay rate changes was tied to something macro meaning big and not a nuclear or quantum sized event. That hardly happens unless there is something truly fundamental about the...
[September 1, 2008, 10:29]
