Thousands of magnets have to work 'like an orchestra' to fire it up once again. 🧐
The LHC was shut down after its successful second run finished in December of 2018. Scheduled maintenance and upgrade work followed, but its third run was also delayed by the pandemic.
Now, three years later, the restart will be a complex procedure, and it isn't guaranteed to go off without a hitch on the first attempt. Reuters . The system has to work"like an orchestra," he said, and"this comes with a certain sense of tension, nervousness." "In order for the beam to go around all these magnets have to play the right functions and the right things at the right time," he continued.
Materials inside the LHC will face a near 300-degree temperature swing, and the thousands of magnets used to concentrate particles into a tight beam will have to be carefully calibrated for everything to work.The LHC was first fired up in 2008 and a batch of collisions observed between 2010-2013 provided the first evidence of the Higgs boson particle, also known as the"God particle", which is believed to have played a vital role in the formation of the early universe.
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