MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - The...
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) resumed work last Thursday, a day after it was switched off due to an electrical fault, but had to suspend work again the following day.
"The winter shutdown will go according to schedule, which means that we start up the accelerator complex in the spring months," said James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
On September 10, amid much hype, scientists fired the first beam of protons round the vast underground circular device, which is run from a control room in a suburb of Geneva on the French-Swiss border.
The collider, located 100 meters below ground with a circumference of 27 km, enables scientists to shoot sub-atomic particles round an accelerator ring at almost the speed of light, guided by a powerful field produced by superconductor magnets.
Particles are sent round the ring in extreme vacuum cooled by liquid helium to minus 271 degrees C.