Higgs Production With Electon-positron Collisions
Most recent answer: 08/28/2012
Q:
In the higg boson experimant why the proton is used not anyother particle i.e can we use electron instead of proton?
- MUMTAZ (age 21)
KARGIL LADAKH J&K INDIA
- MUMTAZ (age 21)
KARGIL LADAKH J&K INDIA
A:
Sure you can. In fact some of the first attempts to find the Higgs were performed at LEP the Large Electron-Positron collider at CERN in Geneva Switzerland. Unfortunately, the energies at LEP were not quite high enough to produce the Higgs. At the maximum energy of LEP, about 100 GeV/c2 they came close to the production threshold, which is 125 GeV/c2 . Didn't quite make it... The Large Hadron Collider, again at CERN, had proton-proton collisions at 7 Gev/c2 , more than sufficient.
LeeH
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(published on 08/28/2012)