China's ambitious new particle accelerator was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project was ...

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NEWPORT NEWS, VA – It’s a paper that’s been more than four decades in the making. A new study has re-benchmarked the main particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson ...

Particle accelerators (often referred to as “atom smashers”) use strong electric fields to push streams of subatomic particles—usually protons or electrons—to tremendous speeds. Accelerators by the ...

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 ...

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 could ...