> In reality most of the detectors are barely functional, Alice for example doesn’t produce useful data for most of the runs. Do you really expect a detector/m

> In reality most of the detectors are barely functional, Alice for example doesn’t produce useful data for most of the runs. Do you really expect a detector/machine of the size of a building to have 100% availability ? This is the sciences world, boy, not aerospace engineering. These detectors are ''home-made' and much closer to an experimental prototype than to anything "engineered". We do not name them "CERN experiments" for nothing.