Project Context

Your group may decide to "design an accelerator", or you may choose to emphasize only certain topics. These questions concerning big concepts may help you decide what to investigate about accelerators:

1. What happens to energy, velocity, mass, and momentum as particles "accelerate"?
   
   1. Data for the Fermilab's Tevatron
   2. Data for magnetic fields at several accelerators.

2. What are the primary roles of electric and magnetic fields in particle accelerators?

3. How is the maximum energy of an accelerator related to the size of the accelerator and to its peak magnetic field?

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More detailed questions to investigate:
1. Why are most accelerators round? Advantages/disadvantages?
2. Why are higher-energy accelerators larger?
3. Why is luminosity important to experimenters ?
4. How do accelerators (and detectors) limit what particles can be discovered and studied?
5. What is synchrotron radiation? Uses and disadvantages?
6. Questions that you have:

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Decide what questions your group would like to investigate.
You may decide to work in subgroups, sharing information.