News CERN LHC TEST Today!!!!

[Yaka]

the crafty and perhaps crazy nuts @ CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research are all set to test the LHC for the first time today perhaps spawning deamons, giants black holes and what not. best to have crow bar handy in any case. stream should be on at Live webcast at some point startup time is any where between 9:00am till 18:00pm swiss time which is 2 hours ahead of us

 

[bob269]

Aye the end of the world tis upon us.

So has anybody any regrets or last request?

 

[TdC]

I'll have a foot massage please Bob.

 

[Amelyn]

This vid explains what they are doing..

YouTube - Animation of 'The Bottle to Bang' by Chris Mann

 

[Thadius]

First test has been a success apparently!

 

[Nate]

It's happened already? Wheres the headcrabs..

 

[tris-]

were actually in a paralel dimension RIGHT NOW.

 

[Mophead]

Terrible news: Gordon Freeman spotted near Large Hadron Collider - Joystiq

 

[throdgrain]

Orgone Accumulator

 

[krilly]

The Sun and The Mail keep saying "We are all going to die!!!!"

Judging by the the typical stuff "journalists" print as "news" at said papers, I think we are all pretty safe.

especially considering they don't cross the beams for another 3 weeks or so.

 

[Dukat]

were actually in a paralel dimension RIGHT NOW.

WAIT WAIT WAIT

I think I got sent to the wrong bloody one; the dimension I'm in seems to be perpendicular

 

[bob269]

were actually in a paralel dimension RIGHT NOW.

I thought FH was always in a parallel dimension ?

 

[Cadelin]

The LHC got damaged.

This email was also sent out to all CERN staff:

Incident in LHC sector 34

Dear Colleagues,
During commissioning (without beam) of the final LHC sector (sector 34) at high current for operation at 5 TeV, an incident occurred at mid-day on Friday 19 September resulting in a large helium leak into the tunnel. Preliminary investigations indicate that the most likely cause of the problem was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets which probably melted at high current leading to mechanical failure. CERN's strict safety regulations ensured that at no time was there any risk to people.

A full investigation is underway, but it is already clear that the sector will have to be warmed up for repairs to take place. This implies a minimum of two months down time for the LHC operation. For the same fault, not uncommon in a normally conducting machine, the repair time would be a matter of days.

Further details will be made available as soon as they are known.

 

[Overdriven]

Cade:

 

[Cadelin]

If Swine Flu doesn't kill us all looks like the LHC will be back online soon enough to destroy the earth....

Final LHC magnet goes underground



Geneva, 30 April 2009. The 53rd and final replacement magnet for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was lowered into the accelerator’s tunnel today, marking the end of repair work above ground following the incident in September last year that brought LHC operations to a halt. Underground, the magnets are being interconnected, and new systems installed to prevent similar incidents happening again. The LHC is scheduled to restart in the autumn, and to run continuously until sufficient data have been accumulated for the LHC experiments to announce their first results.



“This is an important milestone in the repair process,” said CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology, Steve Myers. “It gets us close to where we were before the incident, and allows us to concentrate our efforts on installing the systems that will ensure a similar incident won’t happen again.”



The final magnet, a quadrupole designed to focus the beam, was lowered this afternoon and has started its journey to Sector 3-4, scene of the September incident. With all the magnets now underground, work in the tunnel will focus on connecting the magnets together and installing new safety systems, while on the surface, teams will shift their attention to replenishing the LHC’s supply of spare magnets.



In total 53 magnets were removed from Sector 3-4. Sixteen that sustained minimal damage were refurbished and put back into the tunnel. The remaining 37 were replaced by spares and will themselves be refurbished to provide spares for the future.



"Now we will split our team into two parts," explained Lucio Rossi, Deputy head of CERN’s Technology Department. "The main group will carry out interconnection work in the tunnel while a second will rebuild our stock of spare magnets."



The LHC repair process can be divided into three parts. Firstly, the repair itself, which is nearing completion with the installation of the last magnet today. Secondly, systems are being installed to monitor the LHC closely and ensure that similar incidents to that of last September cannot happen again. This work will continue into the summer. Finally, extra pressure relief valves are being installed to release helium in a safe and controlled manner should there be leaks inside the LHC’s cryostat at any time in the machine’s projected 15-20 year operational lifetime.



CERN is publishing regular updates on the LHC in its internal Bulletin, available at CERN Bulletin, as well as via twitter and YouTube at CERN (CERN) on Twitter and YouTube - CERNTV's Channel