Following the successful circulation of first beam in the LHC on 10 September, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instrument is now on stand-by. A fault in one of its eight sectors is under investigation, and this requires the warming up the sector from a staggering -271 Celsius right up to room temperature. To [...]
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So how are things with the Large Hadron Collider?
October 11th, 2008 · No Comments
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Celebration at CERN as the Large Hadron Collider gets going
September 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Yesterday was a great day for physics as the most powerful particle accelerator ever, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, (European Organization for Nuclear Research), was switched on for the first time, with the initial beams of protons making their way around the great circular tunnel lying under the French-Swiss border. This huge physics [...]