Re: SUPER COLLIDER COUNTDOWN
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26802846
'Big bang machine' halted for 2 months
Damage to $10 billion particle collider is worse than previously believed
GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher ? which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month ? has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday.
Experts have gone into 17-mile circular tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border to examine the damage that halted operations about 36 hours after its Sept. 10 startup, said James Gillies, spokesman for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
"It's too early to say precisely what happened, but it seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out," Gillies told The Associated Press.
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