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The Proton

In Our Time: Science

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The Effects of Protons on Accelerators

The proton has not a fundamental particle, it's made of smaller paths. How does that affect what happens in the accelerators? Well, you've got collisions just between parts of the proton rather than the whole proton. So we actually have to throw an awful lot of protons at each other before we get the energies that we want. Most of those collisions are very low energy parts of theproton and they're really not very interesting from our point of view.

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