Massive Particle Accelerator Revving Up, as Fermilab mistake delays LHC
APR 09, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021011
NPR : This summer, physicists plan to throw the switch on what is arguably the largest and most complex science experiment ever conducted. An underground ring of superconducting magnets, reaching from Switzerland into France, will smash together subatomic particles at incredible force reports NPR . But a mistake carried out by Fermilab in the design of the secondary alignment magnets may delay the project by months says the Sunday Times Jonathan Leake . The delay may allow Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator discover the Higgs Boson, the holy grail of particle physics and the standard model. “Ironically, this delay could be all they need,” says one LHC researcher.see also March 23: A look at the Large Hadron Collider
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