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Short Circuit In LHC Could Delay Restart By Weeks

Posted by Soulskill on from the universe-will-survive-a-bit-longer dept.

hypnosec writes: On March 21 CERN detected an intermittent short circuit to ground in one of the LHC's magnet circuits. Repairs could delay the restart by anywhere between a few days and several weeks. CERN revealed that the short circuit affected one of LHC's powerful electromagnets, thereby delaying preparations in sector 4-5 of the machine. They confirmed that seven of the machine's eight sectors have been successfully commissioned to 6.5 TeV per beam, but they won't be circulating a beam in the LHC this week. Though the short circuit issue is well understood, resolving it will take time, since it's in a cold section of the machine and repairs may therefore require warming and re-cooling.

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  1. Re:Just great... by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you don't have a crowbar on reach at all moments, you're gambling with your own life.

  2. Re:It's the universe trying to stop us innit... by marcello_dl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The universe does not need to stop us, because from the inside of it you can never prove you have the faintest idea of the way it is implemented, even if you got to model and understand every single particle and every single interaction. Does an insulated VM run on intel or on powerpc or on a commodore 64 with a hell of a RAM expansion? no way to know from the inside of it.

    So the most rational reason becomes: they tried using systemd to speed things up but some not well documented glitch made the thing shut down. The short circuit is a scapegoat.

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  3. Re:Just great... by gman003 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now if only someone could create a combination crowbar and towel. Keep one of those on you, and you'll be set for anything.