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How powerful would a collider have to be to observe a sphaleron?
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[QUOTE="mfb, post: 6380581, member: 405866"] It's not sufficient to have 9 TeV in total. You need that energy in the fields of the weak interaction. The article you linked discusses this on page 8. It argues that even a 200 TeV collider is unlikely to be sufficient and then thinks about even higher energies with the comment Lepton colliders would allow searching both for lepton and baryon number non-conservation in a relatively clean environment but I don't know if their collision can produce the necessary conditions for the sphaleron process at all. Plasma wakefield acceleration looks like the only method we have to think about such a collider. Hadron colliders are limited to lepton numbers and even that would be difficult as it's easy to miss a low energy lepton. Even here we would probably need plasma wakefield acceleration. Try to make a giant circular accelerator and synchrotron radiation quenches your superconducting magnets. 500 TeV at 50 GeV/m would be "just" 10 km pure acceleration. Add more than that for focusing, add preaccelerators, accelerators for the wakefield production and so on and you end up with a giant complex. [/QUOTE]
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