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  • $\begingroup$ Ah, that's interesting - can you provide any examples of such elusive low-mass particles? $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 26, 2018 at 9:38
  • $\begingroup$ But is the big collider fully more capable or not? As in: Would the big collider also be able to do the experiments of the small collider (obviously with less efficiency). $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 26, 2018 at 15:07
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    $\begingroup$ I worked on a "low-energy" experiment in grad school at the CERN LEAR ring, where we purposely wanted our particles to move as slowly as possible, such that the kinetic energy of the particles were irrelevant. One of the particles we were looking for were bound states of gluons, called "glue-balls." In theory, these could be created simply by annihilating anti-protons with protons at rest, as all the quarks annihilate with all the antiquarks and result in a sea of just gluons. By doing the experiments at rest, the resulting particles are easier to measure. $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 27, 2018 at 2:30