Talk:Bevatron

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[edit] Still a stub?

I lately added some material to the page, which I think is all more or less common knowledge among particle physics folks, but with no references beyond a link to the AGS page. Since there is no question in my mind that the material is substantially factually correct and does add content, I wonder if is this useful or proper, vs the alternatives of missing or wrong (eg, it was previously said to be an electron accelerator) information? I am new to editing Wiki, and still a bit vague on such things. Also, practically speaking, tracking down a full set of references is more than I can typically undertake, unfortunately.

Also, with the information added, I wonder if the page qualifies to be a level up from just a stub? I'm not sure just how to do this (I do see what looks like the place, as "particle-stub", in double braces), and if that is something I should do. Thanks Wwheaton 19:02, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

No no, it's definately a start class now (which I've change in the template on this page, |class=Start up there...). As for the particle-stub with curly braces, that means it links to a template, in this case template:particle-stub. Really, article classification is just to help people find articles to expand, and stubs are the only things that have templates. Oh, and nice edits! --Falcorian ^(talk) 00:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Threshold energy required to create antiprotons

The kinetic energy needed is considerably larger than the mass of the antiproton, due to the requirement to conserve both momentum and energy, since the products cannot be produced at rest. On the other hand, in collisions with multi-nucleon nuclei, considerable advantage may be taken from the fact that the nucleons bound in nuclei are in motion, with energies up to about 7 MeV. A more accurate threshold, commonly cited, is 6.2 GeV. Wwheaton (talk) 03:33, 1 June 2008 (UTC)