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Originally Posted by alpal
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Energetic protons are the active components in the LHC and they are also the most common high energy cosmic ray components - collisions in the LHC are the same as those in the the atmosphere. But cosmic ray protons can have way greater energy than anything that CERN produces. It is protons that come in from far off energetic events, not the temporary high energy particles that result when there is a collision in the atmosphere (or in the LHC for that matter).
So all of the temporary particles produced in LHC will also be produced in the atmosphere - plus even higher energy ones that cannot be produced in the LHC (if there are any of course).
The difference is that the collision results can be reliably observed in the LHC, but far less so in the uncontrolled atmospheric environment.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/...ut-cosmic-rays