To understand the importance of particle accelerators to particle physics, let’s visit another “big science” institution: the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, known as SLAC.

Linear accelerators have become an indispensable component in the advancement of particle therapy, offering precise control over the delivery of ionising radiation for cancer treatment.

Current particle accelerators are divided into two primary types: circular accelerators and linear accelerators, sometimes called linacs. The "pipes" through which particles accelerate are vacuums ...

The linear resonance accelerator, developed by E.O. Lawrence and colleagues during the 1930’s, was one of the earliest designs for attaining high particle energy without the requirement of ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Los Alamos National Laboratory is celebrating 50 years of its globally sought-after linear particle accelerator. Scientists use the accelerator to study the ...

The APS facility at Argonne National Lab is donut-shaped, with beams of electrons shot out from a linear particle accelerator in the center. The beams are then bent by magnets to travel in circles ...

A new particle accelerator at Michigan State University is set to discover thousands of never-before-seen isotopes. Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, CC BY-NDJust a few hundred feet from where we ...

The PIP-II accelerator project at the Fermilab campus in Batavia has received full approval for construction, including a new superconducting radio-frequency linear particle accelerator.

The new facility will allow for experiments to be conducted over a wider energy range and produce data at a much faster rate than the original 2009 particle accelerator.

The electrons first traveled 2 miles through the linear accelerator at SLAC, gaining 42 billion electron volts (GeV) of energy.