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So if it is being used to denote the mass of a particle, the unit should be expressed as eV/c 2.Īnyway, an Electron Volt is how much energy or energy transfer (work) there is necessary to move one electron through a field of one volt. The reason the same unit can be used for both mass and energy is that by Einstein's famous equation E=mc 2, mass is energy. The Electron Volt (eV) is the unit of energy used for giving the mass or energy of a particle. Electron VoltsĪ word should be said about the unit called the Electron Volt before continuing into the depths of the sub-atomic world. The planned 40TeV figure was double the original expectation and it transpired that organising the project at large was logistically problematic. Some beams would travel clockwise, others anti-clockwise thus they would collide at an energy of 40 trillion electron volts (40TeV), revealing a burst of tiny particles that special detectors would analyse. The device would have accelerated beams of protons (particles found in the nuclei of all atoms) around an 87km (54 mile) long tube until they were travelling extremely close to the speed of light (300,000km/s). It was predicted that it would have taken around nine years to complete (from 1991 to 2000), costing nearly $12 billion, which was over twice the original estimate. Then in 1982, the Snowmass Summer Study that was sponsored by the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society discussed the project further. It was first conceived of in 1978 at workshops of the International Committee on Future Accelerators where a powerful particle accelerator was discussed. It was to be built near Waxahachie, just outside Dallas, Texas, USA. The Superconducting Supercollider, or SSC for short, would have been a particle accelerator of gargantuan proportions, nicknamed the 'window on creation' for its proposed ability of recreating some of the conditions present at the time of the Big Bang itself.