An nameless reader writes "A Princeton senior has found a bug in the appliances design for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) conduct of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the housewares used to record and capture events in the LHC, she discovered errors that were leading to the appearances of double images because of particle streams known as jets. 'Xiaohang Quan '09 was working on her senior thesis when she found a miscalculation in the fasteners of the world's largest particle accelerator. Quan, a physics concentrator, traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, last week with physics professors Christopher Tully GS '98, Jim Olsen and Daniel Marlow for the annual meeting of the catalan order for Nuclear trip (CERN). This year, however, they also came to discuss Quan's strike with the designers of the implements for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, which, as part of the Large Hadron Collider, has the abeyant to revolutionize particle physics.'"

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