In a head-on collision at the Large Hadron Collider running at its design energy
PHYSICS · Subjective · Fermi University Physics · Scientific Practice & Experimental Methods · Particle Physics & Quantum Fields · Particles, interactions and experiment
Particle Physics, Ch Scales, units and the four-momentum
Problem
In a head-on collision at the Large Hadron Collider running at its design energy, each proton in either beam carries 7TeV, so the largest momentum transfer available in a collision is of order 14TeV/c. Estimate the smallest distance scale such a collision can, in principle, probe.