The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a modern engineering marvel of great importance to the scientific community.
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He referred to them as part of life in such a large installation. It entered a 66 kilovolt transformer and damaged transformer connections.
A file picture of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as seen during a media visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Saint-Genis-Pouilly near Geneva in Switzerland, July 23, 2014.
It explains as to how other particles got their names.
The discovery of the God particle, the long-sought maker of mass, made two of the scientists who had theorized its existence back in 1964, win the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics.
Mysterious particles such as pentaquarks, gravitons and dark matter may be waiting to be discovered.
A small mammal, possibly a weasel, gnawed-through a power cable at the Large Hadron Collider.
This is not the first time that an animal sabotaged the Large Hadron Collider.
He noted that the beech marten – a member of the weasel family – did not survive the incident. “We had electrical problems, and we are pretty sure this was caused by a small animal”, said CERN head of press Arnaud Marsollier.
In 2009 the LHC was taken out by what was suspected to be a bird, though no remains were found. In fact, some even say that a bird dropped a piece of baguette into the machine’s electrical workings, which sounds a little too flawless to be true. But, he tells New Scientist, the equipment is fine and the fix should be easy.
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“We are in the countryside, and of course we have wild animals everywhere”, Marsollier said, noting that it is not uncommon to encounter these situations. Marsollier added that the LHC is in a wooded area and that CERN believes the critter was most likely “a weasel, probably”. The particle accelerator was in the process of uncovering new data about the Higgs-Boson when the unfortunate animal chewed on the accelerator’s power cord.
