Does radioactive decay slow in a particle accelerator

[nonphysicsman]

I am a non physicist-scientist, but landed here searching the internet for this answer. Has it ever been done? Thank you for any answers.

 

[russ_watters]

Welcome to PF!

I would assume it is taken into account, with the lifespan of particles created in the collisions, but I couldn't find any quick references. But how about a natural particle accelerator?
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/muon.html

 

[Vanadium 50]

The CERN and Brookhaven muon g-2 experiments have high speed muons in a storage ring. The time dilation factor is around 30.

 

[nonphysicsman]

Welcome to PF!

I would assume it is taken into account, with the lifespan of particles created in the collisions, but I couldn't find any quick references. But how about a natural particle accelerator?
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/muon.html

Welcome to PF!

I would assume it is taken into account, with the lifespan of particles created in the collisions, but I couldn't find any quick references. But how about a natural particle accelerator?
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/muon.html

 

[jtbell]

When I was in graduate school 35 years ago, one of my friends worked on an experiment involving beams of sigma and xi hyperons at Fermilab. Without the time dilation of their lifetimes, the hyperons would not have been able to travel from the production target to the detector.

 

[nonphysicsman]

Thank you for the response. I'm trying to find out if there has been evidence of time slowing or accelerating as particles approach the speed of light. What would be a natural accelerator?

 

[nonphysicsman]

When I was in graduate school 35 years ago, one of my friends worked on an experiment involving beams of sigma and xi hyperons at Fermilab. Without the time dilation of their lifetimes, the hyperons would not have been able to travel from the production target to the detector.

Thank you. Is this considered evidence of time dilation?

 

[Drakkith]

Thank you. Is this considered evidence of time dilation?

Absolutely.

 

[russ_watters]

What would be a natural accelerator?

Did you reat the link? It's pretty descriptive, yet succinct.

 

[mathman]

Thank you for the response. I'm trying to find out if there has been evidence of time slowing or accelerating as particles approach the speed of light. What would be a natural accelerator?

Muons produced by cosmic rays demonstrate this effect.

 

[sophiecentaur]

What would be a natural accelerator?

That hyper physics link that Russ W gave you tells you all about it. It's a 'natural' event.