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What would happen if Large Hadron Collider would collide electrons?
After some reading about the Large Hadron Collider and it's very
impressive instruments to detect and investigate the collision results,
there is a remaining question.
What would happen if the ...
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Could we use particle colliders as fusion generators?
So I know the basic gist is that fusion power's main issue is sustaining the fusion. I also know that there are two methods. The Torus method and the laser method. The torus magnetically contains ...
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Advantages of high-energy heavy-ion collisions over proton-proton collisions?
Some high-energy experiments (RHIC, LHC) use ion-ion collisions instead of proton-proton collisions. Although the total center-of-mass energy is indeed higher than p-p collisions, it might happen that ...
