The world's cutting-edge particle accelerators are pushing the extremes in high-brightness beams and ultrashort pulses to explore matter in new ways. To optimize their performance -- and to ...

Profiling extreme beams: Scientists devise new diagnostic for particle accelerators Research team aims to measure micron-sized beams at Berkeley Lab's BELLA Center Date: May 10, 2018 Source: DOE ...

[Editor's note : we are often so involved in our own designs and deadlines we don't have time to appreciate the efforts of others, where designs and designers push the limits of speed, performance, ...

The profile of a beam is commonly measured using a ‘wire scanner’: this works by rapidly scanning a fine wire through the beam. The beam profile can be derived from the measurement of the particle ...

Particles known as tensor mesons are created when high-energy photons interact. These mesons have now been proposed to have a larger effect on photon behavior than previously thought, and provide a ...

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. It hurtles hundreds of trillions of protons around a circular track at just under the speed of light. While each ...

It's also important to note that the beam from a particle accelerator is very narrow (the more focused the beam is, the higher the chance of collisions with protons in the other beam).

The weapon, a so-called neutral particle beam, would be boosted into space and tested from orbit in 2023. Neutral particle beams don’t get as much attention as lasers but are attractive in their ...

The Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails could enable an interstellar probe to alpha centauri that would be 1000 times larger and 60% of the speed of the current Starshot laser-driven proposal. Centauri ...

Particle beams, unlike lasers, are conventional weapons. There are no fancy quantum interactions here, and no wavelength cancellations or transfers of orbital energy.