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LHC restart: Short circuit slows preparations
The rebooted Large Hadron Collider is facing a delay of days or even weeks, after a short circuit was detected in one of its powerful electromagnets.
Before the collisions begin, proton beams must travel safely around its 27km circumference in both directions.
Those full laps were expected to begin this week, but that plan will now be revised.
Cern, the European nuclear research organisation which runs the LHC, said the "intermittent short circuit" was discovered on Saturday.
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I'm really fascinated by the possibility of amazing new things from the LHC.
I am awed by the mind-boggling complexity of getting this thing up and running.
Apparently, 'the experiment teams were ready to go, and waiting to hear more from the scientists and engineers who manage the beams'.
There are two very separate teams, the basic science guys and the engineers.
