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Scientists confirm delay in testing new CERN particle accelerator

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June 5, 2007
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GENEVA: Scientists seeking to uncover the secrets of the universe will have to wait a little longer after the CERN laboratory in Switzerland on Monday confirmed a delay in tests of a massive new particle accelerator.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-kilometre (16.8 mile) circular tunnel 100 metres (330 feet) below the French-Swiss border where subatomic particles will collide at close to the speed of light, will now start operations next spring, and not in November as originally planned, CERN said.

“The start-up at full level was always scheduled for spring 2008, but we had planned to test the machine for two weeks before Christmas, which will not now take place,” spokesman James Gillies told AFP, confirming a report in the French newspaper Le Monde.

The delay is due to an accumulation of little setbacks, Gillies said.

The LHC, assembled over 15 years and involving more than 10,000 physicists and 500 research bodies and firms around the world, may help unlock the final secrets on sub-atomic particles.

The project “could be the most ambitious scientific undertaking ever,” and its results “will probably change our fundamental knowledge of the universe,” its organisers say.

Scientists plan to smash together high-energy protons in two counter-rotating beams in the tunnel, just outside Geneva, to look for signatures of supersymmetry, dark matter and the origins of mass.

The beams are made up of bunches containing billions of protons which will be injected, accelerated, and kept circulating for hours, guided by thousands of powerful superconducting magnets.

Each proton goes around the 27 kilometre ring over 11,000 times a second.

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