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PostSubject: Yee-Pee! Atom-Smasher Reluanch Delayed Till September   Yee-Pee! Atom-Smasher Reluanch Delayed Till September Icon_minitimeMon Feb 09, 2009 7:45 pm
Europe's Big Bang atom-smasher will not now restart until the end of September, following a major breakdown that marred its multi-billion dollar launch one year earlier, researchers said Monday.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) broke down only days after being switched on by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in September 2008, causing more than 30 million Swiss francs of repairs (20 million euros, 26 million dollars).

"The new schedule foresees first beams in the LHC at the end of September this year, with collisions following in late October," CERN said Monday in a statement from its Swiss headquarters.

The new German director of CERN signalled in an interview late January that he would be more cautious than his French predecessor, with the relaunch having been repeatedly put back since the vast scientific experiment was launched amid worldwide fanfare last year.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director-general of CERN, said then that the bill for repairs on the six billion Swiss franc particle accelerator could even reach 40 million Swiss francs.

With 10,000 staff involved and after more than a decade of painstaking work, the first proton beams were fired down the new accelerator in a blaze of publicity on September 10, 2008 only to break down due to a helium leak from its cooling system nine days later.

Heuer has said that he does not want to push for a full energy beam until 2010 at the earliest, after new protection systems have been added.

The LHC -- which runs through a 27-kilometre (17-mile) tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva -- is the most powerful in a series of atom-smashers at the 20-nation research organisation that have successfully helped advance knowledge of particle physics and the workings of the laws of nature since CERN was founded in 1954.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090209/sc_afp/sciencephysicscern_20090209211546/print

Maybe a tiny black hole is already eating away at their installations...


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