Fermilab Statement on LHC Magnet Test Failure

[jal]

Everyone might have time to polish their theory.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/20070329_page01.html
Fermilab Statement on LHC Magnet Test Failure

 

[marcus]

Everyone might have time to polish their theory.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/20070329_page01.html
Fermilab Statement on LHC Magnet Test Failure

I just exchanged notes with an experimental physicist who works at Fermilab. He doesn't have any further information besides what is in the press release, which came out a couple days ago.

Peter Woit posted something about this on Friday, http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=541 , with a link to a blog that had some further comment.

It seems like a bummer and likely, as you say, to set the schedule back some

Here is the CERN blogger, named Jester, that Peter Woit gave a link to:
http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2007/03/problems-problems.html
it gives an idea how the accident looks like to CERN people

 

[josh1]

I just exchanged notes with an experimental physicist who works at Fermilab.

I`ll see your experimentalist and raise you two lab technicians.

 

[marcus]

My acquaintance at Fermilab alerted me to some new reports, an hour or so ago:


http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/20070403_page01.html

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive_2007/today07-04-03.html

They are now aiming at another pressure test (of a similar unit) on 1 June.
That is only a two-month delay, from the test on 27 March that failed to a test on 1 June.
So if the second test is OK maybe it will not affect the overall schedule much at all.