Plasma wakefield accelerator diagram Image credit> For now, SLAC's plasma wakefield accelerator is fairly useless as far as actual particle physics research goes -- rather, it's just just one of a ...

A particle accelerator just 0.2 millimetres long is the smallest device of its kind ever built. It is the first tiny accelerator that can produce fast and well-focused bunches of electrons, and ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It is located in a 27-kilometer (16.8-mile) tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border.

A company in Nelson, B.C., is proving that from microscopic things, big things grow. Dehnel-Particle Accelerator Components and Engineering, or D-Pace, has just won two contracts worth more than ...

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If you think of a particle accelerator, what may come to mind is something like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC): a multibillion-dollar colossus that’s dozens of miles wide and crosses ...

The LHC is 54 million times longer than the vaccum tube of the nanophotonic electron accelerator. (Image credit: Getty Images) In a new study, published Oct. 18 in the journal Nature, researchers ...