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Originally Posted by AndreH
If you have ever been involved in commisioning high complex prototype machinery for research you know these things ALWAYS happen.
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I´ve been involved in many things, and I know things happen, especially when it comes to such cutting-edge machines. Take this quote by CERN’s Rudiger Schmidt, coordinator of LHC machine protection:
“It takes 30 minutes to five hours to restart the LHC after a quench,” says Schmidt. “If we quench 10 times a day, it’s too much. If we never quench, we’re being too conservative. We have to operate such that we don’t quench too frequently.”
My concern when asking that question is whether quenching at high energies could be frequent enough. Was that quench expected to happen at this stage? I thought the major concern at this stage was beam collimation.