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Dantheman62 · 11-07-2009, 04:48 AM

The collider is plagued by thousands of suspect electrical splices that might not be able to handle the currents required for running at higher energies. Last September, only nine days after scientists at CERN and around the world had first succeeded in shooting beams of protons around the ring (but had not yet tried to collide them), a splice between two magnets vaporized in a shower of sparks and soot, damaging dozens of the expensive 35-ton magnets.

LOL

By Tom Chivers
Published: 12:23PM GMT 06 Nov 2009

The Large Hadron Collider (left) and its arch-nemesis (right) Photo: AFP/GETTY/JOHN TAYLOR

The 27-kilometer (16.8 mile) LHC suffered serious overheating in several sections after the small piece of baguette landed in a piece of equipment on the surface above the accelerator ring.
Dr Mike Lamont, the LHC’s Machine Coordinator, said that a “a bit of baguette”, believed to have been dropped by a bird, caused the superconducting magnets to heat up from 1.9 Kelvin (-271.1C) to around 8 Kelvin (-265C), near the mark where they stop superconducting.

11-07-2009, 04:48 AM	#10
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Re: Breadcrumb Causes CERN's LHC Shut Down The collider is plagued by thousands of suspect electrical splices that might not be able to handle the currents required for running at higher energies. Last September, only nine days after scientists at CERN and around the world had first succeeded in shooting beams of protons around the ring (but had not yet tried to collide them), a splice between two magnets vaporized in a shower of sparks and soot, damaging dozens of the expensive 35-ton magnets. LOL By Tom Chivers Published: 12:23PM GMT 06 Nov 2009 The Large Hadron Collider (left) and its arch-nemesis (right) Photo: AFP/GETTY/JOHN TAYLOR The 27-kilometer (16.8 mile) LHC suffered serious overheating in several sections after the small piece of baguette landed in a piece of equipment on the surface above the accelerator ring. Dr Mike Lamont, the LHC’s Machine Coordinator, said that a “a bit of baguette”, believed to have been dropped by a bird, caused the superconducting magnets to heat up from 1.9 Kelvin (-271.1C) to around 8 Kelvin (-265C), near the mark where they stop superconducting. Last edited by Dantheman62; 11-07-2009 at 04:54 AM.