Posts by BeamsAndBows@mastodon.sdf.org
 (DIR) Post #B5gBE5ZAMoW6rD7iaW by BeamsAndBows@mastodon.sdf.org
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       Large Hadron Collider taking the L tonight. That rampdown pattern (black graph) is NOT normal 😬 I’ve only ever seen the magnets do that one other time, and that was ten years ago after a small animal got fried on an 18 kV power line.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5gBG5atEbZfWSsqUS by BeamsAndBows@mastodon.sdf.org
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       Encouraging to see the LHC back up and cycling magnets after what happened earlier.This precycle phase is done so that the magnetic fields, which retain memory of their powering history (hysteresis), are in a known state so they can bend and focus the beams predictably.
       
 (DIR) Post #B8eTr0tlrCYFPcSW1Y by BeamsAndBows@mastodon.sdf.org
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       @lardmotel meanwhile, the US itself has had a loophole in its abolition amendment for the past 160 years 🤦‍♀️