{"id":2970,"date":"2008-09-24T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T07:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/24\/earth-saved-until-next-year\/"},"modified":"2008-09-24T07:51:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T07:51:03","slug":"earth-saved-until-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/24\/earth-saved-until-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Saved Until Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the LHC has been shut down until next year<\/a>, after a major helium leak in on section. This means it will be March or April of next year before collisions in the ATLAS detector create dragons that will eat us all.<\/p>\n

Now you know why I didn’t make a big deal of the “start-up” a couple of weeks ago. (Well, also, I was in Canada at a conference…)<\/p>\n

If you’re worried that this will delay the march of progress, though, fear not:<\/p>\n

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The failure occurred as the accelerator’s two proton beams were being ramped up for a test run at 5 TeV. CERN had then planned to use the winter shutdown to make final adjustments to the superconducting magnets that guide the beam so that the accelerator could start-up again in the spring at the full energy of 7 TeV. <\/p>\n

However, CERN has now decided to cancel the 5 TeV test run and re-start the accelerator at full power in the spring, according to CERN spokesperson James Gillies. “We are not behind schedule for 7 TeV”, he told physicsworld.com.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure that will work out just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, the LHC has been shut down until next year, after a major helium leak in on section. This means it will be March or April of next year before collisions in the ATLAS detector create dragons that will eat us all. Now you know why I didn’t make a big deal of the “start-up”… Continue reading Earth Saved Until Next Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","category-physics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}