Does a charge have spin outside an atom?

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Is spin of electron taken into account when people accelerate electron in LHC?
 
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The LHC accelerates protons, not electrons.

Electrons (and all other particles with spin) have a spin outside of atoms.

This spin is taken into account at electron- positron colliders.

The spin is not relevant at high-energetic proton-(anti)proton collisions, as you don't care about elastic collisions there*. Deep inelastic collisions (the interesting stuff) are collisions between parts of the protons, where you cannot control the spin anyway.*don't tell that the scientists of the TOTEM experiment. But the proton spin is so small that I don't think they care about it.
 
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!
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