Heavy Ion Alert
Heavy Ion Alert is an international group of critics concerned about the insufficiency of existing safety arguments regarding Large Hadron Collider heavy ion collisions – between lead nuclei – and the unsatisfactory nature of the associated regulatory process.
Table 6.3, p.112, E. Gładysz-Dziaduś, ‘Are Centauros exotic signals of the QGP?’, from arxiv or
Phys. Part. Nucl. 34 (2001); also Fz. Elem. Chast. Atom. Yadra 34 (2003) 565-678.
For including positive charge also, see p.83 of revised arxiv version.
ALICE Technical Proposal for A Large Ion Collider Experiment at the CERN LHC’,
CERN Document codes: CERN / LHCC / 9571; LHCC / P3 (1995),
Note that Z/A in range -.5 to +.5 implies a charge that is negative, neutral or positive.
E. Gładysz-Dziaduś, ‘Are Centauros exotic signals of the QGP?’,
p.77 from arxiv; or Phys. Part. Nucl. 34 (2001) 285-347. Also, p.58 of revised arxiv version.
‘ALICE Technical Proposal for A Large Ion Collider Experiment at the CERN LHC’,
Document codes: CERN /LHCC / 9571, LHCC / P3, (1995),
p.189, from Sect.11.10 - 'Strangelets'.
Note that MEMOs (metastable exotic multihypernuclei objects) are similar to strangelets, but
without the clear associated risks.
E. Farhi and R.L. Jaffe, ‘Strange matter’, Phys. Rev.
D30(11) (1984) 2379-2390, p. 2390; abstract here.
P. Katsas, A.D. Panagiotou and E. Gladysz-Dziadus for the CMS/CASTOR Group,
‘Searching for Strange Quark Matter with the CMS/
CASTOR Detector at the LHC’ CMS-HI meeting. Slide 30 from the weblinked list of slides here.
R.L. Jaffe, W. Busza, F. Wilczek and J. Sandweiss,
‘Review of speculative “disaster scenarios” at RHIC’,
p.11 of arxiv version; also;Rev. Mod. Phys. 72(4) (2000) 1125-1140,
Email: epenrose@heavyionalert.org
As shown below, CASTOR is the LHC's detector primarily for strangelets:
According to both CASTOR theory and another CERN theory, strangelets could satisfy dangerous attribute (i) of negative
charge:
Again according to these theories, LHC strangelets could also satisfy dangerous attribute (ii) of stability:
CASTOR theory and the likelihood of strangelet production:
Eric Penrose | Email: epenrose@heavyionalert.org
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Official safety review of LHC
undertaken by – members of
Yet both the Swiss Federal Council and
its supervisory committees either
contradict or do not admit to this non
independence.
See our open letter (response) to the
Swiss supervisory committees,
responsible for the Swiss Federal
Council. This, and our appeal letter,
also concerns the contradictions shown
on left and in above report.
Heavy Ion Alert's Open Letter
and previous correspondence:
Statements of CERN researchers contradict arguments used as safety assurances in CERN's LHC safety review
The statements – shown further below – by CERN's own Large
Hadron Collider researchers, are not compatible with many of
CERN's safety assurances. This questions the reliability of the
assurances of LHC safety that we have been presented with,
particularly regarding the LHC lead ion collisions, which will
restart later this year.
For more examples of contradictions from CERN's
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What are dangerous strangelet attributes? - As shown here:
i) negative electric charge and ii) stability: