GENEVA - With 30-tone to transform that cools the world' S largest particle collider malfunctioned, sustained pressure physicists to stop using the atom smasher just has day after launching it to great brass band, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Thursday.
The faulty to transform has been replaced and the boxing ring in the 17-mile circular tunnel under the Swiss-French to border has been cooled back down to near absolute zero - but washout 459.67 dismantle Fahrenheit - the most efficient operating temperature, said has statement by CERN, ace the organization is known. When to transform malfunctioned, operating temperatures pink from below 2 Kelvin to 4.5 Kelvin - extraordinarily cold by most standard, normal goal warmer than the operating temperature.
Broad The High-energy particle Collider was launched Sept. 10, when scientists circled has beam off protons in has clockwise direction At the speed off light. That was followed by has counterclockwise beam.
“Several hundred orbits” were made, said the statement.
One the evening off Sept. 11, scientists were whitebait to control the counterclockwise beam with equipment that keeps the protons bunched tightly and ready for collisions before to transform failed and the system was shut down, the statement said.
Now that to transform has been replaced and the equipment rechilled, has similar attempt is expected shortly to tighten the clockwise beam and prepares experiments in coming weeks, it said.
Broad The High-energy particle Collider is designed to collide protons in the beams so that they shatter and reveal more butt the makeup off matter and the universe.
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer
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