From CERN's press release:
At the 151st session of the CERN Council today, CERN Director General Rolf Heuer confirmed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) remains on schedule for a restart this autumn, albeit about 2-3 weeks later than originally foreseen. Following the incident of 19 September 2008 that brought the LHC to a standstill, a great deal of work has been done to understand the causes of the incident and ensure that a similar incident cannot happen again.
“Many new tests have been developed,” said CERN’s Director for accelerators, Steve Myers. “That’s given us a wealth of information about the LHC splices, and confidence that we will be in good shape for running this year.”
As you read this, technicians are warming up Sector 4-5 to check for splice problems and making sure the new QPS (quench protection system) is working. QPS will "trigger evacuation of the stored magnetic energy quickly and safely should a part of the LHC’s superconducting system warm up slightly and cease to be superconducting," thus (hopefully) avoiding last year's eleventh-hour debacle.
The CERN Bulletin has more detail; Interactions talks splices; and Dennis Overbye sums up the success of the World Science Festival.
At the 151st session of the CERN Council today, CERN Director General Rolf Heuer confirmed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) remains on schedule for a restart this autumn, albeit about 2-3 weeks later than originally foreseen. Following the incident of 19 September 2008 that brought the LHC to a standstill, a great deal of work has been done to understand the causes of the incident and ensure that a similar incident cannot happen again.
“Many new tests have been developed,” said CERN’s Director for accelerators, Steve Myers. “That’s given us a wealth of information about the LHC splices, and confidence that we will be in good shape for running this year.”
As you read this, technicians are warming up Sector 4-5 to check for splice problems and making sure the new QPS (quench protection system) is working. QPS will "trigger evacuation of the stored magnetic energy quickly and safely should a part of the LHC’s superconducting system warm up slightly and cease to be superconducting," thus (hopefully) avoiding last year's eleventh-hour debacle.
The CERN Bulletin has more detail; Interactions talks splices; and Dennis Overbye sums up the success of the World Science Festival.
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