Geneva Switzerland.- Short circuit caused to be delayed indefinitely, the expected restart Large Hadron Collider (LHC ), the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN).
The resumption of accelerator world’s most powerful particle was scheduled for this week, after a break of two years during which work is performed upgrade.
The Center for Particle Physics CERN reported that the Collider Hadron should start recirculating proton beams this week to prepare for resume scientific experiments, but Short flashing one of the eight circuit Magnetic.
short circuit was identified affects one of the powerful electromagnets machine, section 4-5, which was the same sector that caused a false stirred output when the LHC began operations in 2008, the center said.
Failure was detected on Saturday and experts investigate the entire section before it is activated, which could take days or weeks depending on whether the supercooled circuit needs to be heated, repaired and put cold again, he said.
In a statement, CERN Director for Accelerators, Frederick Bordry explained that “any cryogenic machine is an amplifier of time, so it would take hours on a hot machine may ultimately take weeks.”
Thousands of scientists and engineers LHC made history in 2012 when the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, a subatomic particle sought long believed to play a role in mass communication to other fundamental particles.
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