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Will relativistic heavy-ion colliders destroy our planet?

Alvaro De Rújula and Alvaro de Rujula · CERN

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Experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory will study collisions between gold nuclei at unprecedented energies. The concern has been voiced that ``strangelets''-hypothetical products of these collisions - may trigger the destruction of our planet. We show how naturally occurring heavy-ion collisions can be used to derive a safe and stringent upper bound on the risk incurred in running these experiments..

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  1. Will relativistic heavy-ion colliders destroy our planet? 1999-10-07 · 51 min · CERN's player

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Institution
CERN
Department
Science and Society
Taught by
Alvaro De Rújula, Alvaro de Rujula
Year
1999
Language
English
Subjects
Physics
Source
CERN
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