Monday, 22. September 2008

Hadron Collider halted for months


On Friday, a failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C.

The fire brigade were called out after a tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel at Cern, near Geneva.

bbc.co.uk universetoday.com reuters.com telegraph.co.uk

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