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Corey S. Powell@coreyspowell.bsky.social |
Anatomy of a beam dump. A handy way to get rid of 350 megajoules of high-energy protons when you need to shut down your particle collider. Weighs just 6 tons!
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Knut Morå
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I always thought it's nifty how they scan the beam across the beam dump to spread out the energy
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Hephaestus
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Is it true that's how Cern can barbeque an entire cow for their annual picnic in less than 3.62 seconds?
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Bill Higgins-- Retired Beam Jockey
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Interesting reading. We were urged, at some point, to call such things "beam absorbers," because "dump" might connote, as you say, garbage. It was undesirable to give the impression our lab was dumping something. This did not keep us from thinking of a beam dump as a beam dump.
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