Scaling Behavior of Circular Colliders Dominated by Synchrotron Radiation — mentioned by T-A

Sun, 10 Jul 2016 03:55:13 GMT

The Planck scale, where quantum gravity should have directly observable consequences, is ~10^18 GeV. The world's most powerful collider to date, the LHC, reaches a collision energy of ~10^4 GeV, not far from the theoretical maximum attainable by a ring of its size [1]. If you wanted to scale up the LHC by an energy factor 10^14, you would have to deal with the energy loss caused by synchrotron radiation (charged particles going around a ring are constantly accelerating, so constantly emitting electromagnetic radiation) which is ~E^4/R per turn [2]. To keep the same energy loss as at the LHC…

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Scaling Behavior of Circular Colliders Dominated by Synchrotron Radiation — mentioned by T-A