End of World Further Delayed
John Conway of Cosmic Variance reports that the damage to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was even more severe than so far reported. He links to this CERN Report: INTERIM SUMMARY REPORT ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE 19 SEPTEMBER 2008 INCIDENT AT THE LHC: ...Inspection and diagnostics After restoring power and services in the tunnel and ensuring mechanical stability of the displaced magnets, one proceeded to open the cryostat sleeves in the interconnections between magnets, starting from subsector 23-25. This confirmed the location of the electrical arc, showed absence of electrical and mechanical damage in neighboring interconnections, but revealed contamination by soot-like dust which also propagated in the beam pipes over some distance. It also showed damage to the multilayer insulation blankets of the cryostats. The number of magnets to be repaired is at maximum of 5 quadrupoles (in Short Straight Sections) and 24 dipoles, but it is likely that more will have to be removed from the tunne...