[Flynn’s Editorial: Thanks, `Steeve-o`! After reading about the gifting efforts and how this technological piece of junk might affect the area encircling the populous above ground, I’ve concentrated with lots of happy thoughts on that fine day as I encircled it with lots of bright lights: Zzzttt! I actually visualized the machine shutting down, turning it off.]
Collider halted until next year
By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News
Page last updated at 18:04 GMT, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 19:04 UK
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The incident on 19 September caused a tonne of liquid helium to leak out into the experiment’s 27km-long tunnel.
It will take us a while to get beams injected into the LHC, but I think it’s fair to say this will be the priority for next year’s start-up.” said James Gillies, Cern’s director of communications.
Cern said the most likely cause of the equipment failure was a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator’s magnets.
“It does seem that all the systems that are supposed to protect the machine in cases like this worked as far as we can tell. But obviously something went wrong,” said Mr Gillies.
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