NEW YORK: Physicists have fixed a short-circuit at the world’s largest proton smasher, making the particle-hunting machine ready for a restart “within days’ time” after a two-year shutdown.
A fragment of metal in one of the Large Hadron Collider’s magnet circuits that had delayed putting the machine back into service was removed on Monday, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said.
“The largest collider in the world should be ready for beam (operations) in a few days’ time,” CERN wrote Tuesday.
