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There are cosmic rays many times more energetic than anything we could hope to create on earth going through space all the time, we’d just need a detector out t

• celias 8y ago
  There's the ISS-CREAM cosmic ray detector on the space station that can "measure elemental spectra of Z = 1–26 nuclei over the energy range 10^12 to >10^15 eV" Given that CREAM is roughly 2x1x1m^3 and weighs 1258 kg while ATLAS on the LCH is "46 metres long, 25 metres in diameter, and weighs about 7,000 tonnes" it may not be possible to put LHC-class detectors in space https://cosmicray.umd.edu/iss-cream/ https://cosmicray.umd.edu/iss-cream/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment