A particle accelerator is not some kind of evil super villain torture device. A particle accelerator is used for health, ...

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Particle accelerators are usually huge structures—think of the 3.2-km-long SLAC National Accelerator Lab in Stanford, California. But scientists have been hard at work trying to shrink these ...

Texas A&M University professor Peter McIntyre and his colleagues want to build a particle accelerator around the rim of the Gulf of Mexico in order to discover the most fundamental building blocks of ...

Twenty-five feet below ground, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientist Spencer Gessner opens a large metal picnic basket. This is not your typical picnic basket filled with cheese, bread and ...

In 2016, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) approved the high-luminosity large hadron collider (HL-LHC) upgrade project. LHC is currently the largest and most powerful particle ...

The pumps that circulate gas mixtures through these particle detectors must be extremely reliable and keep the gases ...

Europe's physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion towards the construction of a new particle ...

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A particle accelerator was used to create lightning in a bottle by charging a spinning acrylic tube with high-energy ...

You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an ...