http://phys.org/news/2012-09-task-lhc-collides-protons-ions.html
This may actually turn out ... really interesting. If possible to extract\detect.
'' The LHC usually accelerates two beams of protons in opposite directions – from 0.45 TeV to 4 TeV – before they collide at a total energy of 8 TeV. Radiofrequency (RF) cavities – accelerator components containing electromagnetic fields that kick particles forwards – provide the energy but also keep the two beams in strict synchrony, by kicking backwards when appropriate. A problem arises because the separate rings for the two beams are contained within a single magnet – a system that ties the momentum of one beam to the momentum of the other, so a lead nucleus, containing 82 protons, is accelerated from 36.9 to 328 TeV, or from 0.18 to 1.58 TeV per proton or neutron.''
Colliding such p's now with a ... neutron or nuclear material may uncover 'something' Science sometimes kick started major revolutions from apparently seemingly less dramatic a priori steps...
The Honourable Schoolboy
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