We need a particle accelerator that can accelarate leptons, like electrons and pions, to the TeV scale.
I'm not a physicist, but as leptons and mesons are lighter (rest mass wise) than hadrons, wouldn't accelrating them to TeV require less energy than a hadron would? So wouldn't an existing TeV scale accelrator work? Just asked.
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We need a particle accelerator that can accelarate leptons, like electrons and pions, to the TeV scale.
I'm not a physicist, but as leptons and mesons are lighter (rest mass wise) than hadrons, wouldn't accelrating them to TeV require less energy than a hadron would? So wouldn't an existing TeV scale accelrator work? Just asked.