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To: Major Matt Mason

I believe they use magnetic field containment.


44 posted on 11/08/2010 10:59:07 AM PST by brivette
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To: brivette

Yes, magnetic containment to form the beams. But inertial containment for the actual collision reactions.

That is, the mass of the particles prevents them getting out of each other’s way for a femtosecond or so, then they all go blooey and the detectors pick up the fragments to see what happened.

The momenta of many of the charged fragments from this type of experiment make it impossible to contain them in the available magnetic field.


53 posted on 11/08/2010 12:23:12 PM PST by Erasmus (Personal goal: Have a bigger carbon footprint than Tony Robbins.)
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