23Sep LHC helium leak will shut collider down for two months
More glitches for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): The same day operators announced that a 30-ton transformer that cools part of the particle smasher had broken within hours of the LHC’s launch last week, a mishap yesterday resulted in “a large helium leak” into the collider’s tunnel.
According to a press statement, “the most likely cause of the problem was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets, which probably melted at high current leading to mechanical failure.”
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