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Re: [Phys-l] Update on CERN (LHC)

Bob,

Where do your figures & dates come from? The magnetic quench accident is pretty old news (<2 yrs ago), and it is my impression that the damage repair and refurbishment has already occurred, and that the LHC has been up and running for the past year, almost immediately breaking the previous record for high energy collisions, and ramping up to 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam) last March. The news bulletins on http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ sound like they're having fun doing new physics, in never-before studied conditions. Pretty upbeat, I'd say.

All the best,

Ken Caviness

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Subject: [Phys-l] Update on CERN (LHC)


Due to the accident a while back CERN's LHC will operate at reduced beam
energy until the end of 2011. The accelerator will be then be shutdown for a
major refurbishment to correct the design error that allowed the massive
damage to sections of the super conducting magnets. This will take twelve to
eighteen months. Based on this we should not expect to see signs of SUSY
or the Higgs until 2015 at the earliest.

Bob Zannelli
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