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Re: Why are particle accelerators so large?

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On 03/23/2016 04:15 PM, reber g=emc^2 wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 9:05:43 AM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Why are particle accelerators so large?
>>> http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/why-are-particle-accelerators-so-large
>>
>>
>>> The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is a whopping 27 kilometers in
>>> circumference. Edda Gschwendtner, physicist and project leader for
>>> CERN's plasma wakefield acceleration experiment (AWAKE), explains why
>>> scientists use such huge machines.
>>
>>> Particle accelerators are tools that allow us probe both the
>>> fundamental components of nature and the evolution and origin of all
>>> matter in the visible (and maybe even the invisible?) universe. The
>>> more powerful the accelerator, the further we can see into the
>>> infinitely small and the infinitely large.
>>
>>> Particles in circular accelerators gradually gain energy as they race
>>> through an accelerating structure at a certain position in the ring.
>>> For instance, the protons in the LHC make 11,000 laps every second
>>> for 20 minutes before they reach their collision energy. During their
>>> journey, magnets guide the particles around the bends in the
>>> accelerator and keep them on course.
>>
>>
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> Big circle no sharp bends.TreBert
>
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Why are particle accelerators so large? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 11:05 -0500
  Re: Why are particle accelerators so large? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-03-22 18:20 +0000
  Re: Why are particle accelerators so large? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-03-23 13:15 -0700
    Re: Why are particle accelerators so large? benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-03-23 22:19 -0400

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