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RE: Large Hadron Collider

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CERN inaugurates the LHC
Swiss President Pascal Couchepin and French Prime Minister François Fillon were joined at CERN1 today by science ministers from CERNs Member States and around the world to inaugurate the Large Hadron Collider, the worlds largest and most complex scientific instrument.

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The Day the World Didn't End
Here's what didn't happen on Sept. 10th:
The world did not end. Switching on the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, did not trigger the creation of a microscopic black hole. And that black hole did not start rapidly sucking in surrounding matter faster and faster until it devoured the Earth, as sensationalist news reports had suggested it might.

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A bad electrical connection likely caused the malfunction that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher days after it was launched with great fanfare, a senior scientist said Monday.
The fault was probably a poor soldering job on one of the particle collider's 10,000 connections, said Lyn Evans, project leader of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Nuclear Research Organization.

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Worlds largest computing grid ready for data
The technological advancements surrounding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the new particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland are not just about the physics.

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Large Hadron Collider 'shut down till spring'
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will remain shut down until next spring, following the serious fault on Friday that derailed plans for it to start smashing protons together this week.

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PU profs say no reason to panic over helium leakage
The worlds largest experiment to know the birth of the universe has come to a halt after a leakage of helium gas occurred during the beam test. According to the Panjab University professors, those involved in the experiment, the process has been halted for an indefinite time period as the repair work is likely to take time.

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Hadron Collider halted for months
The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months because of a technical fault.

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has lost up to a tonne of liquid helium after some of its superconducting magnets inadvertently heated up this morning.

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A 30-ton transformer that cools the world's largest particle collider malfunctioned, forcing physicists to stop using the atom smasher just a day after launching it to great fanfare, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Thursday.

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