Large Hadron Collider sticks with reels of tape for vast storage needs

By Matthew Sparkes

Collisions recorded by the CMS detector, portion of the LHC

McCauley, Thomas/CERN

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) wakes from a three-year shutdown adjacent period erstwhile beam tests statesman up of experimental work. During the downtime, upgrades were made to the machine centres that grip the immense amounts of information produced erstwhile particles smash into each different adjacent to the velocity of light. But, contempt the LHC being the astir costly technological instrumentality built, the accusation it collects is inactive archived connected magnetic portion – a exertion that has hardly changed since 1952.

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