| Using Magnets to Keep Protons
in Orbits
In a magnetic field pointing vertically upward, protons traveling
to your right would sustain a magnetic force toward you, and
protons traveling to your left would feel a force away from
you. To have the left-moving protons feel a force toward you
would require a magnetic field in the opposite direction, downward.
Therefore two beams of protons going in opposite directions
can follow the same horizontal circular path only if they move
through oppositely directed vertical magnetic fields. This can
happen only if the two proton beams are in separate beam pipes
going through oppositely directed magnetic fields. This can
be accomplished either by having seperate beam pipes with oppositely
directed magnetic fields or, more cheaply, by using "two-in-one"
magnets, as is done for the LHC.

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