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11-06-2009, 11:40 AM
You couldn't make it up:LHC 'bird-bread' strikeOn Tuesday 3 November, a bird carrying a baguette bread caused a shortcircuit in an electrical outdoor installation that serves sectors 7-8 and 8-1 of the LHC. The knock-on effects included an interruption to theoperation of the LHC cryogenics system. The bird escaped unharmed butlost its bread.The standard failsafe systems came into operation and after the causewas identified, re-cooling of the machine began and the sectors wereback at operating temperature last night. The incident was similar ineffect to a standard power cut, for which the machine protection systemsare very well prepared.
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