LHC Update: September 18, 2009
September 18, 2009 | 9:09 am
The LHC has taken another big step on the road back to operation, reports today’s CERN Bulletin. The whole accelerator is now being supercooled, with three of the LHC’s eight sectors already at operating temperatures of 1.9 K (-271.3 degrees Celsius). In the first in a series of powering tests, scientists have begun putting electrical current back into the magnets of the three cold sectors. One sector has now been powered with the new Quench Detection System, and two other sectors are moving on to tests with higher current.
Katie Yurkewicz
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October 22nd, 2009 at 2:36 am
It’s good to hear this. It is just like reading a science fiction when reading about a temperature of 1.9 Kelvin.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Its great to hear the LHC is about to start up. When do they think the first collisions will take place.