It is amazing that the beam was "dumped" just milliseconds before the magnet quenched! If that hadn't happened then the beam could have crashed into the magnet and caused a lot more damage.
Dumping the beam means diverting it out of the main LHC ring and crashing it into a specially designed buffer (I think it is a lump of steel or something). So cool to see this all happening automatically.
Dumping the beam means diverting it out of the main LHC ring and crashing it into a specially designed buffer (I think it is a lump of steel or something). So cool to see this all happening automatically.