Big Bang machine's head expresses confidence about repair work.Byline: ANI London, Jan 3 (ANI): The scientist in charge of the Large Hadron Collider This article or section contains information about an expected future scientific facility. It is likely to contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change as the facility approaches completion. (LHC LHC Large Hadron Collider LHC Lahore High Court LHC Lonely Hearts Club LHC Lake Havasu City (Arizona, USA) LHC Log Homes Council LHC Left-Hand Circular LHC Les Horribles Cernettes (band) ) is confident that the experiment to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang will be successful after the repair work is over. The LHC was built to smash protons together at huge speeds, recreating conditions moments after the Big Bang. The 3.6 billion pounds machine in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. shut down in September after a malfunction between two of its magnets. New protection systems will be added as part of 14 million pounds repairs to avoid further problems when the LHC is restarted this summer. According to a report by BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. News, Project director Dr Lyn Evans said they had "a lot of work to do". "But we now have the roadmap, the time and the competence necessary to be ready for physics by summer," he said. "We are currently in a scheduled annual shutdown until May, so we're hopeful that not too much time will be lost," he added. An investigation into the LHC's problems concluded the initial malfunction was caused by a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator's magnets. The LHC took 13 years to build and was shut down after just nine days. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) said that as a result, 53 magnet units will have to be removed from the LHC's tunnel to be cleaned or repaired. It is estimated the final magnet will be reinstalled by the end of March, with the LHC ready for tests in June. According to Dr Evans, he was "optimistic" that the experiment would be carried out successfully. "I think we have done not only investigating the cause of the incident, but making sure it can never happen again and I think that's an essential thing," he said. "We now have developed a means to be able to spot such things before they create any damage so when the machine comes back up again it will come on safely and it will have a long and productive life," he added. (ANI) Copyright 2008 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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