Posted: May 05, 2010 6:31 am
hackenslash wrote:Physics reason. It has to do with keeping the ions confined in the circumference of the accelerator as the velocity increases. Think about how a car leans when you go around a corner. That's why accelerators keep getting larger and larger to probe smaller scales at higher energies.
You mean they can't build magnets strong enough to do the business at those energies and radius of curvature of the beam ? They need to try those magnets that Wile.E.Coyote uses in the Roadrunner cartoons.