Talk:Tevatron
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[edit] The name?
Am I the only one wondering what the name "Tevatron" means? I doubt it was a random jumble of letters, so why was this name chosen? Greek? Acronym? Or what? Nyh (talk)
- Thinking about a possible explanation, I thought that maybe the name refers to the roughly one TeV of energy that particles can be accelrated to in the Tevatron? If this is true (or if there is another explanation), it probably belongs in the article.
Nyh (talk) 16:44, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Superconductor cooling
"It maintains the coils of the magnets, which bend and focus the particle beam, in a superconducting state with a power consumption of 1/3 what it would be at normal temperatures"
If superconducting magnets have exactly zero resistivity, shouldn't the power consumption be zero (and therefore infinitely lower than what is would be at normal temperatures)? Or is this supposed to mean the power used by the cooling system is 1/3rd the power that would be used by using resistive magnets? 136.159.234.163 17:19, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Moats / Pools?
I noticed their are pools forming a ring around the accelerators, is their a reason for this? I couldn't find anything in the article. --Falcorian (talk) 16:45, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
- So I've just been told their for cooling, can anyone confirm that? --Falcorian (talk) 17:25, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Shutdown?
Numerous newspaper articles note that the Tevatron is scheduled to be shutdown? The article does not mention this. What is the reason for the shutdown? Is it being superseded by the LHC? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nodekeeper (talk • contribs) 19:50, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Particle speed
"320 km/h or %99.999956 of the speed of light" - should this not be 320 km/s? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.202.120.40 (talk) 13:33, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
--Well, but 320km/s also doesn't make 99.999956% of c. Nor does 320000km/s (it's too large). There is something wrong with the numbers. One can obtain the speed basing on the given "980GEv" energy value and the proton mass, but i feel lazy with that. I'm going to delete the line from the article - it's better to have no data, then to have incorrect data. //Unregistered guest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.243.101.67 (talk) 19:06, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
