Exercise 9:
Using an electric field of Volt/meter, how much time does it take to accelerate a proton to an energy of 100 GeV? How far does it travel in that time? (Use your plots from Exercise 8.)
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), protons are accelerated to an energy of 8 TeV. Instead of using a longer simulation, extrapolate your results in order to determine how long it would take to accelerate a proton up to TeV using Volt/meter. How far does the proton travel during this time? How many trips around the LHC would the proton make during this time? How does this distance compare to the circumference of the Earth’s orbit around the sun?