Hi Robin,
>Lets see - at an ending velocity of 1000 km/sec and the particle itself is of >a geometry below the Forster radius of 10 nm, then the trasition time on >impact from the BEC state to a very energetic intermediate quark-soup phase >... well it is way sub-picosecond and that should make it all interesting, no? RvS: At 1000 km/sec each proton of your nano-particle will have an energy of 5220 eV. I doubt this will be anywhere near enough to create quark-soup (i.e. to break the gluon bonds between quarks). If it were, then "atom smashers" wouldn't need to be huge underground devices, but could reside on a laboratory work bench. I agree entirely. But has anything been overlooked in the past? The 'magic' if there is any, would be in the special properties of the BEC state. If that state were to be strongly involved, then it is not simply 5 keV used to push nuclei together, which want to repel - but it is more comparable to 5 keV added to already superimposed nuclei, which is used to keep them in that condition for long enough, in a phase transition, so that the lower entropy alpha particle results in the ending nucleus, instead of the two deuterons repelling. This could have been essentially unknown or unappreciated when the early atom smashers were being designed... Or else - maybe that is for good reason. Perhaps it is impossible to maintain such a required very hard vacuum in an accelerator, such that the BEC state is maintained in an accelerated particle. Jones
