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Old 08-September-2008, 03:25 PM
Warren Platts Warren Platts is offline
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Originally Posted by worldcruiser View Post
You have obviously no idea what you are talking about.
You've got that backward my friend.

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Hint: a single beam will not give a single hit and therefore no experiment.
That's not true at all. Read the Wikipedia article on "collider". It says there are two possible setups:

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  • Fixed target setup: A beam of particles (the projectiles) is accelerated with a particle accelerator, and as collision partner, one puts a stationary target into the path of the beam.
  • Collider: Two beams of particles are accelerated and the beams are directed against each other, so that the particles collide while flying in opposite directions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but to have a single beam collider equal the performance of a double beam collider, all you've got to do is double the kinetic energy of the single beam collider.
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