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"Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)"
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Stuart Fox
November 5th, 2009
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The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to the Register, shut down the whole operation.
The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.
This incident won't delay the reactivation of the facility later this month, but exposes yet another vulnerability of the what might be the most complex machine ever built. With freak accident after freak accident piling up over at CERN, the idea of time traveling particles returning from the future to prevent their own discovery is beginning to seem less and less far fetched.
- Deceased--fermi National Laboratory's Atom-smasher...tevatron
Nothing is permanent. "Atom-Smasher Retires; Lab Makes Career Switch" by Michael Lipkin May 21st, 2011 The New York Times When scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced last month that they might have discovered a new elementary...
- Rutherford, Large Hadron Collider, Theoretical Physics
Abstract: In this article, I set out arguments why the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) : the machine and the experiments with it, are a watershed for particle physics. I give a historical perspective of the essential link between development of particle...
- Lhc Back Online
Light the fuse and stand back. Are they CERNtain it will work this time. "Cern Large Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months" by Paul Rincon BBC News The Large Hadron Collider experiment has re-started after a 14-month hiatus while the machine was...
- "and In This Corner...fermi National Accelerator Laboratory"
One begins to wonder if blood letting will occur? The Higgs boson [God Particle] is the prize and the race between Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the LHC is on. One problem...the LHC is down for maintenance thus FermiLabs has currently an...
- Annihilation Of The World Put On Hold
"LHC’s biggest collisions on hold until after 2010" by Jon Cartwright February 10th, 2009 physicsworld.com Maximum-energy collisions will take place at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) only after 2010. Following the recommendations of LHC staff given...
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"Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)"
by
Stuart Fox
November 5th, 2009
POPSCI
The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safety features. Now, a bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the accelerator has, according to the Register, shut down the whole operation.
The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.
This incident won't delay the reactivation of the facility later this month, but exposes yet another vulnerability of the what might be the most complex machine ever built. With freak accident after freak accident piling up over at CERN, the idea of time traveling particles returning from the future to prevent their own discovery is beginning to seem less and less far fetched.
- Deceased--fermi National Laboratory's Atom-smasher...tevatron
Nothing is permanent. "Atom-Smasher Retires; Lab Makes Career Switch" by Michael Lipkin May 21st, 2011 The New York Times When scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced last month that they might have discovered a new elementary...
- Rutherford, Large Hadron Collider, Theoretical Physics
Abstract: In this article, I set out arguments why the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) : the machine and the experiments with it, are a watershed for particle physics. I give a historical perspective of the essential link between development of particle...
- Lhc Back Online
Light the fuse and stand back. Are they CERNtain it will work this time. "Cern Large Hadron Collider restarts after 14 months" by Paul Rincon BBC News The Large Hadron Collider experiment has re-started after a 14-month hiatus while the machine was...
- "and In This Corner...fermi National Accelerator Laboratory"
One begins to wonder if blood letting will occur? The Higgs boson [God Particle] is the prize and the race between Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the LHC is on. One problem...the LHC is down for maintenance thus FermiLabs has currently an...
- Annihilation Of The World Put On Hold
"LHC’s biggest collisions on hold until after 2010" by Jon Cartwright February 10th, 2009 physicsworld.com Maximum-energy collisions will take place at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) only after 2010. Following the recommendations of LHC staff given...