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Asked by anon-351151 on 7 Mar 2023.
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Joel Goldstein answered on 7 Mar 2023:
When the LHC is running, bunches of particles cross at the centre of the CMS and ATLAS detectors 40 million times a second, and in each bunch crossing about 50 individual proton-proton collisions can occur. So that’s about two billion collisions per second for each detector!
A “fill” lasts for most of the day (although the intensity does drop off), so at a rough guess that’s about 50 trillion collisions per day for each experiment.
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