Designing a New Particle Accelerator
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Consider a beam of protons with energy 206.5 GeV . If these protons collide with stationary protons, what is the available energy in a collision?
Constants A new particle accelerator facility is being built. The designers are considering two designs, one using stationary targets and the other using collisions of beams with the same energy.
Express your answer in billions of electron volts to three significant figures.
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Part B
Now, consider two beams of protons, moving in opposite directions, each with energy 103 GeV . What is the available energy E when these beams collide?
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