Vacuum conditions in the beam pipe were also lost.
Special forward detectors are arranged down to small angles close to the beam pipe.
By contrast, events with the positrons travelling undetected down the beam pipe, are accepted.
"If Isabella isn't shut down, we may have breach of the beam pipe, which would result in an explosion."
"The uranium is shooting through the beam pipe, but nothing's coming out!"
Sitting in the beam pipe's rupture was a shiny sphere.
Yet the interior beam pipe was bare of steel slivers.
The section of ruptured beam pipe sat on the table between her and Zak and the safety board.
She said, "The natural place to rupture was the focus, since the beam pipe is thinnest there.
Surrounding the beam pipe is the silicon detector.