289 | Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments

3221.938 - 3245.374 Cari Cesarotti

And again, for reference, at the LHC, we collide things at TeV, so 1,000 times lower than what we do at the main collider, but still with some acceleration technology. So we accelerate protons to a couple of GeV, and then we just dump it into some chunk of metal. So sometimes lead, sometimes tungsten. The chunk of metal that we dump into is, in fact, a very sophisticated field of research.