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What can come out of an atomic nucleus other than a neutron or proton (at your energies)?
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Well, I suppose only neutrons or protons, but this phenomena results in all kinds of crazy isotopes and daughter products. We also have issues with proton interaction with cooling water. Not only do we get radiolysis (H2 and O2 production), but we get weird isotopes like N-17.
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How do your energies (and energy density) compare to the LHC?
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I think the LHC is operating much closer to the speed of light. We're only at 90%. Our accelerator is only about 1000 feet long, so nothing like the LHC.
We pulled our target module off this morning. It was reading about 31,000 rads/hr on contact. If you were able to walk up next to it, you'd receive a lethal dose of radiation in less than a minute. If you look closely on the round "seal plate" near the bottom of the picture, you can see little globs of liquid mercury.
