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 ...

Physicists are sketching the designs of a particle accelerator that would be radically smaller and cheaper than existing facilities. The technique behind these designs, known as wakefield ...

Ten years ago, scientists were able to discover the Higgs Boson particle and help make sense of the universe using the Large Hadron Collider. They did it again in 2018, unlocking new insights on ...

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 ...

Instead of alchemy, scientists used the world’s largest particle accelerator to crash beams of lead ions into each other at near-light speed. Some of the ions collided; others didn't.

Fortunately, the cosmos offers natural particle accelerators in the form of the extreme environments around supermassive black holes. We just need a little ingenuity to exploit them.

But no one is aiming to use a coin-sized accelerator to explore the mysteries of particle physics. The statement from FAU notes that medical applications are top of mind.

The accelerator—just 100 micrometers in size—can quickly accelerate ultracold samples to velocities of more than half a meter per second. It does this by making movable optical potential ...

Fresh from their historic discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, researchers using CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the main particle accelerator at the European particle-physics laboratory ...

CERN is drafting plans to idle its particle accelerators, including the Large Hadron Collider, if France runs short of electricity By Matthew Dalton Follow Sept. 4, 2022 8:26 am ET ...