I’m not surprised either way here, as in, I don’t know enough to have predicted either. Here’s the reason the page gives:
The arcs contain the dipole ‘bending’ magnets, with 154 in each arc. An insertion consists of a long straight section plus two (one at each end) transition regions — the so-called ‘dispersion suppressors’. The exact layout of the straight section depends on the specific use of the insertion: physics (beam collisions within an experiment), injection, beam dumping or beam cleaning
Unfortunately I don’t really understand that, and might not get around to trying harder, but maybe whoever reads this will be enlightened or can enlighten me
It is just a dumb intuition of mine that is like “very high speed → perfectly circular, something something constant acceleration”.
I googled that link retroactively to find an authoritative source, I originally doubted my intuition after seeing this image in CERN’s April Fools post.
So like the reason *I’d* put probability on a perfect circle is “Well, why make it more complicated than just constant inward acceleration?”, and then the crux given my lack of knowledge is “What’s the chance they need to do something more complicated” which is going to be “pretty high”.
I’m not surprised either way here, as in, I don’t know enough to have predicted either. Here’s the reason the page gives:
Unfortunately I don’t really understand that, and might not get around to trying harder, but maybe whoever reads this will be enlightened or can enlighten me
Also that’s a neat link, thanks!
It is just a dumb intuition of mine that is like “very high speed → perfectly circular, something something constant acceleration”.
I googled that link retroactively to find an authoritative source, I originally doubted my intuition after seeing this image in CERN’s April Fools post.
See also most overlays of LHC on a real map showing a seemingly perfect circle: https://kagi.com/images?q=Large+Hadron+Collider+map&r=no_region&sh=nkQ1eb5Nke3eLOt4bDkOQw
So like the reason *I’d* put probability on a perfect circle is “Well, why make it more complicated than just constant inward acceleration?”, and then the crux given my lack of knowledge is “What’s the chance they need to do something more complicated” which is going to be “pretty high”.