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A high energy hadron collider on the Moon
A very high energy hadron collider on the Moon, James Beacham, Frank Zimmermann
Thus, a full and complete understanding of the SM—and an identification of the point at which it becomes invalid, thus providing a long-sought window toward new physics to explain the open questions—will not be possible without a series of collider experiments that test the SM at successively higher energies and simultaneously explore the new parameter space searching for deviations from background expectation or generic anomalies. Such an idea was championed by David Criswell for many decades [ 65] and has been recently studied in detail by the Shimizu Corporation with the Luna Ring concept [ 64] and by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the space solar power systems (SSPS) [ 66]. As discussed in section 2.1, scenario C—which involves excavating tunnels a few dozen to a few hundred meters under the lunar surface to avoid temperature variations, radiation damage to workers and facilities, and meteoroid strikes—likely presents the best option for the CCM.
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