Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, for example, uses radio-frequency oscillations to ...

Conventional particle accelerators use radio-frequency cavities to create the high voltages needed to drive particles to near the speed of light. ... In their latest experiment, they irradiated the ...

To observe this scenario, the researchers used a particle accelerator, CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron, to blast a high-intensity beam of protons into a stationary target.

Scientists have used particle accelerators to produce around 3,000 of these rare isotopes. The FRIB accelerator is 1,600 feet long and made of three segments folded in roughly the shape of a ...

Particle physics is on the case. High-energy electron beams may be able to kill tumors 10 times deeper than current treatments can—without damaging vital organs. By Charlotte Lytton ...

Particle accelerators are big projects; they can’t be done by small teams of scientists working alone; they need big teams, lots of money and government support. Ernest Lawrence realized this ...

But calculations, primitive particle accelerators, ... But unlike SPS, LHC doesn’t do fixed-target experiments. Instead, ALICE creates a magnetic squeeze that goads lead beams, ...

The PIP-II construction project, currently underway, will increase the capabilities of the entire accelerator complex with a brand-new 700-foot linear superconducting accelerator. All of this, along ...