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Originally Posted by Swift
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so much to the news in my favourite radio station (which is one of the best when it comes to serious reporting). They made it sound as it was shut down, and it still is down. (at 14:00, GMT +2)
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snip...The intervening time has been spent recovering cryogenic conditions after the failure of a power transformer on one of the surface points of the LHC switched off the main compressors of the cryogenics for two sectors of the machine. The transformer, weighing 30 tonnes and with a rating of 12 MVA, was exchanged over the weekend. During this process, the cryogenics system was put into a standby mode with the two sectors kept at around 4.5 K. Since the beginning of the week the cryogenics team have been busy re-cooling the magnets and preparing for operation with beam, which is currently forecast for today. The next stage of the commissioning will be single turn studies using beam one, followed by RF capture and circulating beam in both rings.
The LHC is on course for first collisions in a matter of weeks. Next update 24 September at the latest.
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