Why is CERN shut down?
Most of the current shutdown is focused on preparatory civil-engineering works for the HL-LHC, but CERN staff are using the two-year break to carry out vital maintenance on the accelerator and experiments before the LHC switches back in 2021 for a final three-year run.
What is replacing CERN?
The later stages of CERN’s development will be building an electron-positron collider to produce and study the Higgs boson. That machine would then be dismantled and replaced with a proton smasher, which would search for new particles to complete or disprove our current understanding of physics.
Is CERN still running?
At present, the LHC is already in its cooldown phase and the first of the accelerator’s eight sectors reached its nominal temperature (1.9 K or -271.3 °C) on 15 November. The whole machine should be “cold” by spring 2021. The HL-LHC will generate 10 times as many collisions as its predecessor!
Is CERN up and running again?
The machine will start running experiments again in February 2022 if all goes well with the two-week test run in October, said Prof Joachim Mnich, a physicist and the director for research and computing at CERN who sits on the organisation’s Scientific Policy Committee, which had its latest meeting this week to set …
Is CERN still in operation?
The CERN Management has presented a new calendar for future accelerator runs to the Council, which met on 12 December. Under the new schedule, the LHC will restart in May 2021, two months after the initially planned date, and Run 3 will be extended by one year, until the end of 2024.
When was the last time CERN was turned on?
On September 10, 2008, scientists successfully flip the switch for the first time on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) lab in Geneva, kicking off what many called history’s biggest science experiment.