Bill Higgins-- Retired Beam Jockey: Interesting reading. We were urged, at some point, to call such things "beam absorbers," because "dump" might connote, as you say, garbage. It was undesirable to give the impression our lab was dumping something. This did not keep us from thinking of a beam dump as a beam dump.

I've been thinking about an unusual kind of garbage problem. When the Large Hadron Collider shuts down, all those high-speed particles have to go somewhere. This is where: An 8-meter-long radioactive graphite trash can, called a beam dump. home.cern/news/news/ac... 🧪

Anatomy of a beam dump. A handy way to get rid of 350 megajoules of high-energy protons when you need to shut down your particle collider. Weighs just 6 tons! home.cern/news/news/ac... 🧪

Interesting reading. We were urged, at some point, to call such things "beam absorbers," because "dump" might connote, as you say, garbage. It was undesirable to give the impression our lab was dumping something. This did not keep us from thinking of a beam dump as a beam dump.

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