La Course des Accélérateurs de Particules vers les Hautes Energies et la Log Périodicité

• Main Authors: Ivan Brissaud, Eric Baron
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités 2007-12-01
• Series: Cybergeo
• Subjects: complexity; fractals; log periodicity law; particle accelerator; tree of live
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/14173

We present an analysis of the particle accelerator families from the cyclotron to the proton collider LHC at CERN. Different properties of these families characterize a complex system. Jumps of technologic innovation provide very important leaps of projectile energies. Chronology of these jumps could be explained by a log periodic law. Such a law succeeds in analyzing the chronologies of primates, rodents, equidae and, even, financial crashes. Acceleration and deceleration of evolution define a critical epoch Tc. We conclude that new technologies are necessary in the future for the survival of the High Energy Physics.