Experts have gone into the 17-mile circular tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border to examine the damage that halted operations about 36 hours after its September 10 startup. A CERN spokesman said that the problem seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting and led to a mechanical failure and let helium out.
The Large Hadron Collider is the largest physics experiment in the history of mankind.
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