Large Hadron Collider stopped due to electrical failure

Work Large Hadron Collider stopped due to failure in the power supply system CERN, an organization that is engaged in the work of the accelerator. This from exile in the words of workers CERN RIA Novosti.

According to the source agency, at some point the Swiss half CERN vymknulasya (physical center is located on the border Shvetsariyi and France). It worked with accelerator beams of protons with energies in the 450 hihaelektronvolt.

It is stressed that the emergency systems Collider responded to failure of normal, and beams were repaid. It emphasizes that the problem was of an external nature, ie a system that provides the superconducting magnets operated in normal mode. Of accelerator should soon resume.

Problems in the system that provides the magnets led to the fact that September 19, 2008 Collider was abandoned more than a year. Then the network failure caused by breakdown of the tank with liquefied helium, a few tons of which resulted in the accelerator tunnel.

Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest particle accelerator. He planned to use to test predictions of different theories of elementary particles, in particular, finding so-called Higgs bosons - particles responsible for the existence of mass in the body.

Recently accelerator set a record - beams of protons to the ring rozhanyalysya hihaelektronvolt to 1180. This is more than 980 hihaelektronvolt predecessor BAC - American Tevatrona.

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