A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive research sites. In this case, the light produced fell in the extreme ...

A quartz-lined waveguide kept terahertz light synchronized with relativistic electrons, pointing toward much smaller ...

A complete teaching and revision bundle for particle accelerators and detectors in Pearson Edexcel International A2 Physics. The resource develops the physics of linear accelerators, cyclotrons, ...

Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each travel together at nearly the speed of light through metal piping. These electron ...

Whether in listening to music or pushing a swing in the playground, we are all familiar with resonances and how they amplify an effect—a sound or a movement, for example. However, in high-intensity ...

If the United States wants to remain a world leader in high-energy physics research, it must help build a massive linear particle accelerator, a blue-ribbon panel of physicists said Monday. The ...

Atoms will reveal their secrets—you just need enough speed to coerce them. Scientists have known this since at least the 1920s, when they first started firing particles at nuclei via large tubes ...

An architectural rendering of the European Spallation Source under construction outside of Lund, Sweden. As an energy-saving feature, heat produced by the accelerators at ESS will be used to heat ...