Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created a high-energy, ultrashort, ultrahigh current petawatt ...

Scientists carefully positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful ...

To observe this scenario, the researchers used a particle accelerator, CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron, to blast a ...

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some ... in various sizes up to 0.5 millimeters long. An electron beam moves through the channel. Very short infrared laser pulses ...

When it comes to building particle ... of shooting a beam on a fixed target. While before the 1950s new particles were mainly discovered through cosmic rays, powerful accelerators like the ...

Particle accelerators produce and accelerate beams of charged ... There are almost 10 000 electron beam accelerators in operation globally. They can, for example, help make materials more durable in ...

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator is ready to start delivering proton collisions ... the dominance of matter over antimatter and the nature of dark matter. The beam began circulating in ...