Jul 21
Man, tremendous particle accelerators just can’t catch a break these days. Right as engineers finished repairing the helium leak that benched the Large Hadron Collider from doing much last year (aside from a successful early test), the team discovered two more vacuum leaks in another part of the machine.
In order for the leaks to be repaired, first engineers have to warm up the area, which is normally maintained at “ultracold temperatures,” according to Wired. The new delay will likely push the LHC’s projected restart sometime into November, after already being delayed twice recently.
Currently, the LHC is running about two and a half years behind schedule, according to the report.
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