When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle accel… ...

As particle accelerator technology moves into the high-luminosity era, the need for extreme precision and unprecedented collision energy keeps growing. Given also the Laboratory's desire to reduce ...

Picture of the superconducting Darmstadt linear electron accelerator (S-DALINAC) which was operated in multi-turn energy recovery mode. Credit: J.-C. Hartung Credit: Schliessmann et al.

It could be used to study ancient pottery or even identify pollutants in environmental samples. World’s first portable particle accelerator for rock art analysis under development ...

A particle accelerator just 0.2 millimetres long is the smallest device of its kind ever built. It is the first tiny accelerator that can produce fast and well-focused bunches of electrons, and ...

Researchers have successfully activated a tiny particle accelerator that's not even pocket-sized—it could get lost in your pocket. The nanophotonic electron accelerator (NEA) is the size of a ...

But calculations, primitive particle accelerators, and cosmic rays striking Earth’s atmosphere began to reveal an additional menagerie of esoteric particles: kaons, pions, hyperons, and others ...

4,850 feet beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, there’s an underground particle accelerator in a former gold mine. Here, a motorcycle-riding nuclear astrophysicist named Mark Hanhardt thinks ...

The main acceleration tube is approximately 0.02 inches (0.5 millimeter) long, which is 54 million times shorter than the 16.8-mile-long (27 kilometers) ring that makes up CERN 's Large Hadron ...

Well, interestingly, that’s not the case. In fact, the world’s smallest particle accelerator is just barely longer than a dime—and researchers just booted it up.

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