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This Proposed Microchip Particle Accelerator Might Do the Work of a Football Stadium-Sized Synchrotron

We’re used to seeing ever greater particle accelerators — colossal machines sprawling across landscapes, built to reveal the smallest details of the universe. Think of the Large Hadron Collider and ...
New Atlas

General Atomics is working on a "small, commercial particle accelerator"

Using off-the-shelf industrial parts, a team of researchers from the public and private sectors has created a prototype of a small particle accelerator that could have a big impact bringing the ...

For particle physicists working with neutrinos, almost nothing is everything

Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles ...
BGR

China Stopped Production On The World's Largest Particle Accelerator - Here's Why

Planned to be the largest particle accelerator in the world, China's Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) was meant to be about 100 kilometers or 62 miles long. That's much bigger than CERN's ...
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Conduction-cooled accelerating cavity proves feasible for commercial applications

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – From televisions to X-ray machines, many modern technologies are enabled by electrons that have been juiced up by a particle accelerator. Now, the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...
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A career of chasing particle beams

Alex Bogacz, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility since 1997, has spent his career in accelerator physics solving problems. From ...