• physics, a charged particle is a particle with an electric charge. For example, some elementary particles, like the electron or quarks are charged. Some composite...
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  • A charged particle beam is a spatially localized group of electrically charged particles that have approximately the same position, kinetic energy (resulting...
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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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    In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. The Standard Model...
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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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  • Particle accelerators are a well-developed technology used in scientific research. They use electromagnetic fields to accelerate and direct charged particles...
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    when used in the Lorentz force law, correctly predicts the force on a charged particle at that point:: 204  Lorentz force law (vector form, SI units) F =...
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    whether (for a fixed particle charge and direction) the quadrupole focuses or defocuses particles in the horizontal plane. Charged particle beam Dipole magnet...
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  • Many types of particles may be emitted: protons and other hydrogen nuclei stripped of their electrons positively charged alpha particles (α), equivalent...
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    Electron (redirect from Beta minus particle)
    and down quarks. Electrons are extremely lightweight particles that orbit the positively charged nucleus of atoms. Their negative charge is balanced by...
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    Hamiltonian of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. In Cartesian coordinates the Lagrangian of a non-relativistic classical particle in an electromagnetic...
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    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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    In physics, the motion of an electrically charged particle such as an electron or ion in a plasma in a magnetic field can be treated as the superposition...
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  • apparent physical paradox in the context of general relativity. A charged particle at rest in a gravitational field, such as on the surface of the Earth...
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    that of a proton is positive, +e. Charged particles whose charges have the same sign repel one another, and particles whose charges have different signs...
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    Cherenkov radiation (category Particle physics)
    radiation (/tʃəˈrɛŋkɒf/) is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium (such as distilled...
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    The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions...
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    Charged current interactions (as opposed to neutral current interactions) are one of two primary channels in which subatomic particles can interact by...
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    force is the force exerted on a charged particle by electric and magnetic fields. It determines how charged particles move in electromagnetic environments...
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    force acting on charged particles, typically alpha and beta particles, due to interaction with matter, resulting in loss of particle kinetic energy. Stopping...
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    composed of charged particles, beta radiation is more strongly ionizing than gamma radiation. When passing through matter, a beta particle is decelerated...
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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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    Higgs boson (redirect from Charged higgson)
    into other particles almost immediately upon generation. The Higgs field is a scalar field with two neutral and two electrically charged components that...
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    high frequency photons scattering following an interaction with a charged particle, usually an electron. Specifically, when the photon hits electrons...
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    dipole model of the Earth's magnetic field. The motions of low-energy charged particles in the Earth's magnetic field (or in any nearly-dipolar magnetic field)...
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  • Particle therapy is a form of external beam radiotherapy using beams of energetic neutrons, protons, or other heavier positive ions for cancer treatment...
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    the circular motion exhibited by charged particles in a uniform magnetic field. The circular trajectory of a particle in cyclotron motion is characterized...
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  • In radiological physics, charged-particle equilibrium (CPE) occurs when the number of charged particles leaving a volume is equal to the number entering...
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    this process, three charged particles are produced from the event instead of the normal two, with the smallest of the charged particles most probably (90%...
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    cyclotron accelerates charged particles outwards from the center of a flat cylindrical vacuum chamber along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral...
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