Indoor Floods

As is discussed further at the CMS Times there was another unfortunate event at one of the control centers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

This time, right before the start of the winter shutdown, a water pipe froze and burst at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) center.

While most of the repairs should be completed before the restart of major collisions in late February, this is just another example of how such a complex and multi-faceted experiment can encounter many problems related to operations.

The LHC, Fermilab and CDF have had similar problems in their day as well...I will link to some of these funny events below.

Bird stops the LHC
Some problems seen at Tevatron