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It didn't.
I mean I don't think there would be any hamster bits to clean up. The detector would just see mysterious extra carbon ions.
I didn't think they collided that much (rest) mass, so I'd expect the result to be VERY unusual.
The protons would smash into the hamster instead of each other, distributing their energy into the hamster's much larger rest mass.
Ok, but where do the 724 megajoules come from? Although 3.5 TeV is a lot of energy for a particular particle to have, it's not really that much in absolute terms.
Wikipedia's figure on the total intensity of both proton beams. Albeit, come to think, I'm not sure if that was for 3.5TeV intensity or full intensity.
Ah yes, that works. Fair enough. Although not every proton would interact with the hamster on its first pass, and then you'd likely get a quench on the second.
There's a thesis in there somewhere.
We all know what's really going down. The Dark Lords of the Matrix are currently cacking themselves and coming up with semi-plausible reasons to break the thing until they can decide on a long-term strategy.