Physicists Seek to Keep Next-Gen Colliders From Ripping Apart
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator complex. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics.
Controlling huge electromagnetic forces that have the potential to destroy the next generation of particle accelerators is the subject of a new paper by a University of Manchester physicist.
So-called ‘wake fields’ occur during the process of acceleration and can cause particles to fly apart.
The particles are travelling at extremely high energies – and if they are subjected to these wake fields, they can easily destroy the accelerators.
In his paper ‘Wake field Suppression in High Gradient Linacs for Lepton Linear Colliders’, accelerator physicist Professor Roger Jones examines research into the suppression of these wake fields. (more…)
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