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Re:Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak wi... by bayindirh on Friday July 21, 2023 @05:27AM (#36811789)
When I was visiting CERN, the whole accelerator was in maintenance mode. We have seen a detector (IIRC it was ATLAS) which was disassembled in layers, so we were able to see almost all of it.

Our guide explained that whole schedule for maintenance and operation is set in stone and whole schedule is planned almost to hour resolution for the next six months or so. Also it's worth noting that, there are periodic maintenance that needs to be done.

Because of this stringent requirements, "several weeks" of shift is indeed a major problem, and by several I guess they are looking to ~8 weeks, if not more.

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Re:Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak wi... by FireBeyond on Friday July 21, 2023 @11:32AM (#36814978)
My uncle, who is not a physicist, but "one smart mf", was one of the heads of the beam instrumentation team at Fermilab, and spent a large part of his career designing, building and maintaining detectors. It utterly blows my mind.
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