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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."
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These are separate proton-proton collisions happening between protons in beams moving in opposite directions within a volume where the beams intersect. These are not multiple protons intersecting together at a single point, or even along a plane. It is extremely difficult to get protons to stay close together, or especially, to collide. This is why it has been so difficult to build fusion reactors.