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Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 169 Credit: 15,000,737 RAC: 0  
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Hi all, Does anybody here know roughly what the maximum "physics energy" is for an LHC proton-proton collision? Since protons are composite particles the collisions are actually between individual quarks/gluons/whatever, and I'd like to get an idea of the "inefficiency" compared to the beam proton energy. I couldn't see this in a quick look at Wikipedia, probably because I'm not sure what the technical terms would be! Thanks |
 Send message Joined: 15 Jun 08 Posts: 2567 Credit: 258,163,980 RAC: 118,993  |
Take a look at this dokument: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2809109/files/CERN-Brochure-2021-004-Eng.pdf Especially pages 12 and 21. |
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Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 169 Credit: 15,000,737 RAC: 0
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Thanks for that - I'll have to read it through properly. It's nice to see LHC experiments other than the big four get a mention. For reference., p21 answers a similar question I think: Lead-Lead has a total of 1150 TeV available but there is actually only 5.02 TeV available to the colliding pair of nucleons within; possibly I'm misunderstanding the physics but shouldn't there be a similar downshift between the overall proton(nucleon) energy and that of the actual colliding constituents? |
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