• 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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  • of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed...
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    them in well-defined beams. Small accelerators are used for fundamental research in particle physics. Accelerators are also used as synchrotron light...
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    and theoretical research in elementary particle physics, accelerator physics, astroparticle physics, and cosmology. The laboratory is under the programmatic...
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    particle physics. Fermilab's Main Injector, two miles (3.3 km) in circumference, is the laboratory's most powerful particle accelerator. The accelerator complex...
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    higher-energy accelerators, and are used directly to achieve the highest kinetic energy for light particles (electrons and positrons) for particle physics. The...
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    the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for this invention. The cyclotron was the first "cyclical" accelerator. The primary accelerators before the development...
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    theory. Experimental particle physics is the study of these particles in radioactive processes and in particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider...
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    Van de Graaff generator was originally developed as a particle accelerator for physics research, as its high potential can be used to accelerate subatomic...
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  • at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus and CERN. She worked on accelerator physics, electron cooling and storage rings. Ross Bell was born in Glasgow...
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    mathematical physics, astrophysics, high energy particle physics, nuclear physics, plasma physics, solid state physics, nanotechnology, reactor and accelerator physics...
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  • In accelerator physics, impedance is a quantity that characterizes the self interaction of a charged particle beam, mediated by the beam environment,...
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  • accelerators. Fully developed, the technology could replace many of the traditional accelerators with applications ranging from high energy physics to...
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  • The beta function in accelerator physics is a function related to the transverse size of the particle beam at the location s along the nominal beam trajectory...
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    injector for FAIR". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 577...
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    A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around...
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    main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics, material science, structural biology, radiation...
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  • Hadron collider (category Accelerator physics stubs)
    large particle accelerator built to test the predictions of various theories in particle physics, high-energy physics or nuclear physics by colliding hadrons...
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  • Anatoli Bugorski (category Accelerator physics)
    proton beam from a particle accelerator passed through his head. As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Russian SFSR, Bugorski...
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  • particle accelerator is a complex machine that takes elementary charged particles and accelerates them to very high energies. Accelerator physics is a field...
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    mathematics. Applied physicists use physics in scientific research. For instance, people working on accelerator physics might seek to build better particle...
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  • tracking code. See article on Accelerator physics codes. A. Chao, Physics of Collective Beam Instabilities in High Energy Accelerators, Wiley Publishers, 1993...
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  • Collider (category Accelerator physics)
    Colliders may either be ring accelerators or linear accelerators. Colliders are used as a research tool in particle physics by accelerating particles to...
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  • An accelerator physicist is a scientist who contributes to the field of accelerator physics, involving the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying beams...
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    type of a particle accelerator that brings two opposing particle beams together such that the particles collide. In particle physics, colliders, though...
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  • Rigidity (electromagnetism) (category Accelerator physics)
    energy per atomic number. It is an important quantity in accelerator physics and astroparticle physics. The concept of rigidity is derived from the motion...
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  • In particle physics, an interaction point (IP) is the place where particles collide in an accelerator experiment. The nominal interaction point is the...
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    Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), commonly called Jefferson Lab or JLab, is a US Department of Energy National Laboratory located...
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    An electrostatic particle accelerator is a particle accelerator in which charged particles are accelerated to a high energy by a static high voltage potential...
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    Electron gun (category Accelerator physics)
    leading role in X-ray Free-electron lasers and small beam emittance accelerator physics facilities. The most common use of electron guns is in cathode-ray...
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