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What is the total kinetic energy per second of the particles accelerated by the LHC
Related: how many protons per second can the LHC accelerate?
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Can the technology behind Particle accelerators can be used for space propulsion?
As I understand, the kinetic energy of the proton beam in a hadron collider is quite large. Can you build a space propulsion system that is based on accelerating a proton bean to relativistic speeds ...
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Relativistic centripetal force
The thought randomly occurred to me that a circular particle accelerator would have to exert a lot of force in order to maintain the curvature of the trajectory. Many accelerators move particles at ...
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What are the advantages of the ILC over the LHC?
USA Today has an article on Japan's interest as the site for the $10 billion future International Linear Collider. This accelerator will utilize electron/positron collisions (like CERN's former LEP ...
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How to integrate over rapidity for Parton Luminosities in LHC?
I want to make a comparison of parton luminosities between Tevatron and LHC. According to Factorization theorem the cross section in hadron colliders, as long as the partonic cross section has $\hat ...
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Particle colliders: why do they need an accelerator chain
Particle colliders like the LHC or the Tevatron use a complex accelerator chain to have particles at a given energy before being accelerated.
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The CERN accelerator complex to inject in ...
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Why is the LHC circular and 27km long?
The LHC in Geneva is a circular accelerator, 27 km long, why is it like that ?
