A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies to contain them in well-defined...

A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to linac) is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high...

A list of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed...

An electrostatic particle accelerator is a particle accelerator in which charged particles are accelerated to a high energy by a static high voltage potential...

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932...

Hadron-Elektron-Ringanlage, English: Hadron–Electron Ring Accelerator) was a particle accelerator at DESY in Hamburg. It was operated from 1992 to 30 June...

high-energy particle physics. Fermilab's Main Injector, two miles (3.3 km) in circumference, is the laboratory's most powerful particle accelerator. The accelerator...

The Koffler particle accelerator of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, was built in 1976. The building became a symbol of the institute...

supersymmetry theory. Experimental particle physics is the study of these particles in radioactive processes and in particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron...

known by several names: particle accelerator guns, ion cannons, proton beams, lightning rays, rayguns, etc. The concept of particle-beam weapons comes from...

is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop...

Accelerator physics is a branch of applied physics, concerned with designing, building and operating particle accelerators. As such, it can be described...

well as experimental and theoretical research in elementary particle physics, accelerator physics, astroparticle physics, and cosmology. The laboratory...

The particle accelerator DESY (acronym for Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron or German Electron Synchrotron) was the first particle accelerator of the DESY...

Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)...

Particle accelerators in popular culture appear in popular science books, fictional literature, feature films, TV series and other media which include...

international group of astronauts aboard a space station who, after using a particle accelerator to try to solve Earth's energy crisis, must find a way home when...

A particle beam is a stream of charged or neutral particles other than photons. In particle accelerators, these particles can move with a velocity close...

true of very high-energy helium nuclei produced by particle accelerators. The term "alpha particle" was coined by Ernest Rutherford in reporting his studies...

retired particle physicist. He is known for having survived a radiation accident in 1978, when a high-energy proton beam from a particle accelerator passed...

generated 49 petabytes of data. CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research...

KEKB was a particle accelerator used in the Belle experiment to study CP violation. KEKB was located at the KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation)...

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a proposed linear particle accelerator. It is planned to have a collision energy of 500 GeV initially, with...

of particle accelerator that brings two opposing particle beams together such that the particles collide. Compared to other particle accelerators in which...

needed for sustaining the fission process would be provided by a particle accelerator producing neutrons by spallation or photo-neutron production. These...

The Positron–Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator (PETRA) is one of the particle accelerators at the German national laboratory DESY in Hamburg, Germany....

both a particle and its antiparticle (pair production), which can occur in particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Particles and...

beam welding, lithography and particle accelerators that generate synchrotron radiation. Their charge and wave-particle duality make electrons indispensable...

energetic particle beams that are matched to the plasma parameters. The technique offers a way to build affordable and compact particle accelerators. Fully...

in 1932 used this circuit design to power their particle accelerator, performing the first accelerator-induced nuclear disintegration in history. They...