LHC Will Be Shut Down In 2011 considering of “Mistake”

March 10, 2010 · Print This Article

astroengine pursues up to a story about the LHC shutting down that seems to have hit all the news replicators today. “It’s to be expected when pushing the frontiers of physics, but the LHC’s epic “will it or won’t it” saga continues. Due to an unexpected construction mistake, the LHC will cease experiments for a year (starting around late-2011) so repairs

and upgrades can be carried out. For now, accelerated particles will have a maximum energy of 7TeV (half the ability of the LHC’s design maximum), which is ample for at least 18 months of experiments before shutdown.”