A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to linac) is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high...
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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...
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The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a proposed linear particle accelerator. It is planned to have a collision energy of 500 GeV initially, with...
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Cyclotron (redirect from Cyclotronic particle accelerator)
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...
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A list of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed...
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Large Hadron Collider (redirect from Hadron particle accelerator)
Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)...
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a federally funded research and development center in...
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The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a concept for a future linear particle accelerator that aims to explore the next energy frontier. CLIC would collide...
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mesons. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (Menlo Park, California, United States). Its 2-mile-long linear particle accelerator began operating in 1962...
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Fermilab (redirect from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
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...
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known by several names: particle accelerator guns, ion cannons, proton beams, lightning rays, rayguns, etc. The concept of particle-beam weapons comes from...
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Radiation therapy (section Particle therapy)
the growth of malignant cells. It is normally delivered by a linear particle accelerator. Radiation therapy may be curative in a number of types of cancer...
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Accelerator physics is a branch of applied physics, concerned with designing, building and operating particle accelerators. As such, it can be described...
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Circular Electron Positron Collider (category Proposed particle accelerators)
another post-LHC linear particle accelerator planned at CERN International Linear Collider – another post-LHC linear particle accelerator planned in Japan...
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Future Circular Collider (category CERN particle accelerator studies)
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is a proposed particle accelerator with an energy significantly above that of previous circular colliders, such as the...
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into the charged particle beam. The linear induction accelerator was invented by Christofilos in the 1960s. Linear induction accelerators are capable of...
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Synchrotron (redirect from Synchrotron accelerator)
is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop...
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Hadron-Elektron-Ringanlage, English: Hadron–Electron Ring Accelerator) was a particle accelerator at DESY in Hamburg. It was operated from 1992 to 30 June...
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Dipole magnet (category Accelerator physics)
all over the screen. Accelerator physics Beam line Cyclotron Electromagnetism Linear particle accelerator Particle accelerator Quadrupole magnet Sextupole...
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high-intensity superconducting linear particle accelerator for light ions, belongs to a new generation of particle accelerators. The high ion current generates...
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Collider (redirect from Particle collider)
be ring accelerators or linear accelerators. Colliders are used as a research tool in particle physics by accelerating particles to very high kinetic energy...
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generators are neutron source devices which contain compact linear particle accelerators and that produce neutrons by fusing isotopes of hydrogen together...
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Van de Graaff generator (redirect from Tandem van de Graaff accelerator)
originally developed as a particle accelerator for physics research, as its high potential can be used to accelerate subatomic particles to great speeds in an...
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at Argonne National Laboratory. ATLAS is the first superconducting linear accelerator (linac) for heavy ions at energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb...
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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...
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Cockcroft–Walton generator (redirect from Cockcroft-Walton accelerator)
in 1932 used this circuit design to power their particle accelerator, performing the first accelerator-induced nuclear disintegration in history. They...
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Virginia L. Montgomery (section Particle Accelerator Memorial Project: Ideation Accelerator (2015-2017))
department. The artwork is about the decommission of Wright Lab's linear particle accelerator. Montgomery created a large free-standing public sculpture outside...
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The KALI (Kilo Ampere Linear Injector) is a linear electron accelerator being developed in India by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)...
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Oxford University Press UK (2nd edition 2000), ISBN 0-19-262878-X Linear Particle Accelerator (Linac) Animation by Ionactive http://www.myradiotherapy.com...
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approach was designed for a linear particle accelerator or Linac. Installation of the first 4 MeV clinical linear accelerator began in June 1952 in the...
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