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Stephanie 🎀
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Particle accelerator fan, autistic ace-aro artist, millennial, ribbons and bows, BS ‘23 Physics
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The Large Hadron Collider just finished colliding protons at 6.8 TeV per particle this year, and will move on to colliding lead ions soon! 6.8 TeV is the kinetic energy of a mosquito in flight, but get a few hundred trillion protons at that energy, and you can melt a ton of copper!

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LHC specs! RF frequency: 400.8 MHz crab cavities Max proton energy: 6.8 TeV Bending radius: 2803.95 m Main dipole magnet max field strength: 8.09 Tesla Magnet operating temperature: 1.9 Kelvin (-271°C/-456°F)

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Particle accelerator fan, autistic ace-aro artist, millennial, ribbons and bows, BS ‘23 Physics
432 followers71 following2.9k posts