LHC to shut down for a year to address safety concerns

Re:LHC to shut down for a year to address safety concerns by andrewcooke on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @08:08AM (#1180802)

so it was never intended to run at full power without further engineering? or is the article wrong about it staying at half power?

from the article: So they have taken the decision to run the machine for 18 to 24 months at half-maximum power before switching it off for a year ...

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Re:LHC to shut down for a year to address safety concerns by gjm11 on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @09:51AM (#1180998)

All planned in advance. See, e.g., http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/01/29/...

Relevant quotation: "After a one to one-and-a-half year shutdown in 2012 to retrofit the rest of the machine and make other preparations, the LHC will attempt to double the energy, to 14 TeV in the center of mass, in 2013 and accumulate substantial physics data."

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Re:LHC to shut down for a year to address safety concerns by andrewcooke on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @10:11AM (#1181047)

thanks!

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