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| Dave Peachey 2012-03-31 22:39:48 | "ERROR MUON VELOCITY EXCEEDS SPEED OF LIGHT IN ROUTINE ADVPARTICLE" ... does this mean we're giving CERN something else to worry about?  |
| Stephen Brooks 2012-04-01 01:54:23 | I would fix it but the stats server has imploded into a black hole and I'm scared to go near it. |
| Stephen Brooks 2012-04-01 15:10:58 | Fortunately people at the lab have constructed an enormous solenoid to purge the excess muons from the system we expect normal service to resume tomorrow. |
| Stephen Brooks 2012-04-03 00:38:46 | Interesting thing about that picture is that it *is* a large superconducting solenoid and it *was* made at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory where I work. But a long time ago (hence the black and white) when magnet manufacture was a more significant part of its work. That solenoid went into the DELPHI detector of LEP (the machine at CERN preceding the LHC). I believe it got reused in another experiment rather than thrown away when LEP was shut down, but don't know offhand which lab it's living at. So it's a happy ending, for the solenoid. |
| Maniacken [US-Distributed] 2012-04-03 02:16:42 | So do any unusual/cool things happen when the muon yield reaches infinite. |
