🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <22679@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
>In article <1992Apr11.004156.19471@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes...
>>
>>>How fast can it turn bismuth into gold?
>>>
>> 
>>    $10 billion is over a thousand tons of gold.  It had better be pretty
>>    fast ...
>> 
>
>As a p-p collider, the SSC is poorly suited to this task.  (Note that the SSC
>is not a p-pbar collider, as is often asserted.)  However, there will be a
>small fixed-target program at much lower energy than 40 TeV in order to study 
>p-nucleus interactions at the SSC.  In this configuration, it is possible in
>principle to transmute lighter elements into gold.  However at these energies,
>nuclei tend to get blasted apart by the incoming projectile.  You need a much
>lower energy, say from a 100 MeV cyclotron, or the Bevalac, to have a
>reasonable probability of the target nucleus absorbing the incoming proton
>without ablating into nothingness.

     Can you say 'tongue in cheek', sure, I knew you could.

                                dale bass





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C. R. Bass                                           crb7q@virginia.edu
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