The Cerne Abbott Giant......is it just a big cockup ?

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Apparently the electrons spin at high speed in spheres before being accelerated to near light speed out of a large tube.

Does the LHC accelerate electrons? I thought it was protons.

We have a synchrotron just over the road from us - Diamond Light Source. They accelerate electrons to near light speed but don’t do any collisions, they harness the EM radiation that is emitted from the constantly accelerating electrons and use them as intense beams to conduct various experiments. In fact a project I was working on a few years ago used one of the beam lines at DLS to conduct X-ray crystallography.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Does the LHC accelerate electrons? I thought it was protons

Ah I was thinking of it predecessor LEP

“The LHC occupies the same tunnel originally built for its predecessor, the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP). Unlike the LEP, which collided electrons, the LHC accelerates protons, roughly 2 000 times more massive.”

 

[Tenkaykev]

Does the LHC accelerate electrons? I thought it was protons.

We have a synchrotron just over the road from us - Diamond Light Source. They accelerate electrons to near light speed but don’t do any collisions, they harness the EM radiation that is emitted from the constantly accelerating electrons and use them as intense beams to conduct various experiments. In fact a project I was working on a few years ago used one of the beam lines at DLS to conduct X-ray crystallography.

I think Ming might be a bit anagramatically tongue in cheek with large " Hadrons " and big tubes...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I think Ming might be a bit anagramatically tongue in cheek with large " Hadrons " and big tubes...

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