LHC to restart following break and glitches
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The first proton beams of 2010 were circulated in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on Saturday, Cern said on Monday. The machine had been undergoing technical maintenance for 10 weeks.
However, soon after the beams were circulated on Saturday, the beams had to be stopped to allow maintenance to cryogenic systems which help regulate the superconducting magnets, according to Cern.
"Engineers had to access the filters for the cryogenic systems," a spokesperson for the organization said. "They are fixing that, and we expect to beams to be circulating again tonight."
Cern said at the beginning of February that it plans to run the LHC for up to two years at 3.5 TeV, then shut the machine down prior to preparing it to run at 7 TeV per beam.
The LHC has been designed to conduct experiments that will reveal new physics, including proving the existence of the Higgs boson, a hypothetical elementary particle.
For more on this story, read LHC to restart following break and glitches on ZDNet UK.
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