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...year delay has been an obstacle for graduate students whose dissertation research depends on data from the LHC, and on postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty hoping to secure appointments, said Stubbs...
...extra year of their life and it’s a terrible thing, but when you try and do anything for the first time you have to be prepared for something unexpected,” said Thomas J. LeCompte, the physics coordinator of a key LHC experiment. “This is why I personally don’t do space physics—if your satellite explodes on the launch pad you’re in even worse shape...
Other professors echoed LeCompte’s sentiments and said they tried to find suitable topics for their graduate students to pursue while waiting for the LHC to be up and running. “There are certainly students that have had their careers substantially delayed by this—it’s a real worry for them and I’m extremely sympathetic,” said John Huth, a professor of physics and a member of the Harvard team associated with the LHC’s ATLAS experiment. “Everybody is just chewing their...
Even when the LHC does regain function, the future is far from assured. Paradoxically, if all goes exactly according to plan, scientists could find themselves no better off than before. “Even if it does work, if they turn it on and find nothing new at all—if they don’t find [the hitherto unseen] Higgs Boson, for example, or if they find stuff they expect to discoverer and nothing else, it is unclear what the future of that field is,” said Stubbs...
Located in a huge underground tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland, the LHC is overseen by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in collaboration with scientists in over 100 countries. There are six main experiments that data collection at the LHC will service—each of which will address a different question about particle physics, Lecompte said...