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Electrons Tamed: The Breakthrough That Could Shrink Particle Accelerators
DESY scientists have taken a major step in refining laser plasma acceleration, a technology that could revolutionize particle ...
Laser-plasma accelerator achieves 100 electron bunches per second
Laser-plasma accelerators can accelerate particles over distances that are up to 1,000 times shorter than those required by ...
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Radical approach to shrink particle colliders gains momentum
Physicists are sketching the designs of a particle accelerator that would be radically smaller and cheaper than existing ...
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Two-stage plasma trick helps electron beams behave better in tiny accelerators
Scientists from Germany's DESY have come up with a two-stage correction approach to speed up electrons just like they do with ...
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What Might The Next Big Particle Accelerator Look Like? We've Seen The First Glimpse
It accelerates protons and ions to a speed never achieved before by humans, allowing them to probe new energy realms in ...
Ghost Particle From Space Shatters Energy Records: 16,000x More Powerful Than Large Hadron Collider
A groundbreaking discovery has rocked the field of neutrino astronomy—scientists have detected an ultra-high-energy neutrino ...
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99% smaller particle colliders could be possible with 50-year-old Physics trick
An international team of researchers is pushing forward with plans for a radically smaller, cheaper particle accelerator by ...
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Supersymmetry Washes Out at the Large Hadron Collider
At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, finding evidence for supersymmetry became the next great expectation after its ATLAS and CMS ...
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Legendary U.S. Particle Collider Is About to Perform Its Final Smash
Like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider—which is a huge particle collider with experiments set up around its circumference—RHIC has several experiments that draw data from its collisions.
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Drug Reduces Mysterious Particle Involved in Heart Attack Risk
By Gina Kolata As many as one in five people — an estimated 64 million in the United States — have elevated levels of a tiny particle in their blood. It can greatly increase the risk of heart ...