The waist-high accelerator that runs through a two-story high circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border, was taken apart over the over the winter to add power for speeding beams of particles around at nearly the speed of light.
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It is central to all the laboratory's experiments as it is the first stage in a complicated procedure to accelerate beams of particles which are then collided together at great speed to recreate conditions like those that existed at the beginning of the universe.
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Since the ions of the different isotopes have the same electric charge but different masses, the heavier isotopes are deflected less by the magnetic field, causing the beam of particles to separate out into several beams by mass, striking the plate at different locations.
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While such systems are not the only means by which a LArTPC can identify a trigger time, they are necessary for studying phenomena like supernovae and proton decay, where the particles undergoing decay or interaction are not produced in a human-made accelerator and the timing of a beam of particles is therefore not known.
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Teslas commentry was from a time Tesla himself had gone a little wonky ( another quote from this period of his life, about his " death ray " : " [ The nozzle would ] send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10, 000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks . " Later theories are really fringe theories.
