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

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

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

However, such accelerators are massive and considerably expensive. To overcome these limitations, scientists have been ...

Femtosecond-long, petawatt-peak power beam could be used to probe previously inaccessible phenomena in materials science, ...

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 ...