The Large Hadron Collider accelerates two beams of

Chapter 37, Problem 37.59

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The Large Hadron Collider accelerates two beams of protons, which travel around the collider in opposite directions, to a total energy of 6.5 TeV per proton. 11 TeV = 1 teraelectron volt = 1012 eV.2 The beams cross at several points, and a few protons undergo headon collisions. Such collisions usually produce many subatomic particles, but in principle the colliding protons could produce a single subatomic particle at rest. (It would be unstable and would almost instantly decay into other subatomic particles.) What would be the mass, as a multiple of the protons mass, of such a particle? Hint: This problem uses relativity.

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