Smashing Electrons: What Would Happen?

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Smashing electrons together has been less explored compared to protons and neutrons, but electron-positron colliders like LEP have provided valuable insights into particle physics due to their cleaner interactions. While electron-electron collisions are possible, they yield less interesting results and require significantly higher energy levels, making them less practical. Neutrons cannot be accelerated in colliders, limiting their study to secondary collisions from other particle interactions. Fixed-target electron experiments serve as a lower-energy alternative for studying electron-electron and electron-nucleus collisions. Overall, electron collisions present unique challenges and opportunities in particle physics research.
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I have heard of many experiments dealing with smashing protons or neutrons, but I've never heard of smashing electrons together!
What would be the result of such experiment?
 
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There are many electron-positron colliders. LEP was the largest one so far. You can do particle physics with it, in a much cleaner way than with proton-proton colliders as the colliding particles are elementary. The downside is the lower energy of the collisions.

There are no neutron colliders as you cannot accelerate neutrons in an accelerator. They can make secondary collisions, of course, if they are produced by other collisions.
 
Everyone knows the result of electron-positron collision. is electron-electron collision even possible?
 
Sure, but it does not give the interesting results electron-positron gives. All the cross-sections are much lower, the reactions need much higher energy and so on. You also need two separate beam pipes (or a linear accelerator).

Fixed-target electron experiments are some low-energetic version for electron-electron collision, together with some electron-nucleus collisions.
 
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