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Originally Posted by Pippin
"When the LHC achieves its design collision rate, it will produce about a billion proton-proton collisions per second in each of the major detectors Atlas and CMS."
Thats from section 2 in their report "The LHC Compared with Cosmic-Ray Collisions"
I'm playing the part of devil's advocate here, but should these multiple collisions occur without the expected immediate decay, you can see where I came up with the multiple car fiery mess in the middle of the street analogy.
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No, I'm not getting it. What "immediate decay" are you talking about?
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2 particles is nothing to worry about, however the mass and energy resultant in 2 billion heavy lead ions accidently mashing together is quite a different matter.
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Where do you get the idea that there would be 2 billion heavy lead ions mashing together?