HTTP:: New Early Warning System Installed at LHC
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According to initial plans, the Large Hadron Collider should have already produced its first scientific results by now. But, as it stands, malfunctions have delayed its operation considerably, and now experts are working around the clock on bringing the largest particle accelerator in the world back online. As repairs progress, a new early warning system is being installed, so that incidents such as the one that disabled the structure do not occur again, the BBC News reports. The report released by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the LHC, shows that last September's leak was caused by a faulty splice between two of the accelerator's superconducting magnets. These elements are used to get particles moving at speeds close to that of light, before they are collided head-on in the largest detectors ever built. Experts hope to be able to observe all known particles ever discovered, in addition to some new ones. The very reason why the LHC w!
as built to such impressive sizes was to be able to detect high-energy particles. Other accelerators, such as that of Fermilab, may have insufficient energy to detect the elusive Higgs boson, the force carrier that hypothetically allows energy to acquire mass, and turn into a fundamental particle. Additionally, the collisions between the h...
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