Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really precision tools that use electric fields and magnets to steer tiny beams of matter ...

Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each travel together at nearly the speed of light through metal piping. These electron ...

An 86-meter long new linear particle accelerator, named Linac4, will be added to CERN’s LHC operation as an injection chain within two years. The 160 MeV (megaelectron volts) accelerator was built 12 ...

Physicists have now demonstrated a particle accelerator so small it fits inside a single molecule, shrinking one of science’s ...

With the help of carbon nanotubes and laser light, this machine can create immensely powerful X-rays on a microchip, ...

Marco Carlone, founder of Linax Technologies, talks to Tami Freeman about his motivation for creating an online learning tool that teaches medical physicists how to use and understand linear ...

Linac 4 will replace an older accelerator as the first step in the complex that includes the LHC. At a ceremony today, CERN European research center inaugurated its newest accelerator. Linac 4 will ...

Stanford University was awarded a $13.5 million by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, for its contributions to the U.S. Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center National ...

Researchers have developed a new tool, using machine learning, that may make part of the accelerator tuning process 5 times faster compared to previous methods. Each year, researchers from around the ...

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An innovative technique to accelerate particles could lead to smaller, cheaper and more energetic particle smashers. Publishing in Nature today, researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator ...