How are protons separated from the nucleus and stored to be used in the Large Hadron Collider?
- Thursday Nov 19,2009 08:34 PM
- By diddy
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The Large Hadron Collider is said to use a "stream of Protons" in its collision experiment. How are the protons separated from the atomic nucleus? Is the atom destroyed when the separation occurs? Since each element has different number of protons, does the stripping of protons change the element from one to another? How and where are these protons stored until they are ready to be used in the collision process?
Atom, Atomic Nucleus, Element, Large Hadron Collider, Number Of Protons, Stripping
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Hydrogen consists of a proton and an electron. So it makes a good source of protons if you can strip off the electrons.
It sounds like they basically use a very strong electric field to do the stripping of electrons, from what I’ve been able to find by googling.
http://www.pa.uky.edu/~marcus/accel.html
I think you do this process at the time you’re ready to accelerate them. No need for long-term storage. Until you’re ready for protons, all you need is tanks of hydrogen gas.
I don’t know it exactly but i think they are using the Hydrogen ions (H+) it would surely give an proton cause the no of protons in the nucleus is the same as no of electrons inside an atom. I think there would be a mechanism to change the H2 to H+. And the best possibility is there is no storage at all they use it directly just after changing the atom
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