Particle Collider Simulator

Particle Collider

Beam energy 6.5 TeV

Collision rate 1.5 Hz

√s (collision energy)

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Collisions

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Higgs-like events

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Active tracks

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How it works

Two bunches of protons circulate the storage ring in opposite directions, held on their circular path by bending magnets. At the detector they are steered into a head-on collision. The energy released is the sum of both beams' energy, and by Einstein's mass–energy relation that energy can materialise as new, heavier particles that don't exist in ordinary matter — including, above a threshold near 125 GeV, the Higgs boson, which decays again almost instantly into a spray of lighter, more stable particles that the detector's concentric layers register as tracks.

E = mc²
√s = 2·E_beam   (head-on, equal-energy beams)
N_secondaries ∝ √s

Beam energy — energy of each individual proton beam; the collision energy √s is twice that, and a higher value produces more secondary particles, longer tracks, and a better chance of a Higgs-like event.
Collision rate — how often bunches are steered into each other at the detector; higher rate means more collision flashes per second.
Tracks — toggle the secondary-particle trajectories left by each collision's decay products.
Trigger collision — force an extra collision immediately, independent of the automatic rate.

Real-world relevance: this is a simplified picture of how the Large Hadron Collider found the Higgs boson in 2012 — accelerate, collide, and read the pattern of tracks left in a layered detector to infer what briefly existed at the collision point.

Beam 1 (clockwise) Beam 2 (counter-clockwise) Higgs-like decay Secondary particle

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