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 ...

Scientists from Germany's DESY have come up with a two-stage correction approach to speed up electrons just like they do with ...

DESY scientists have taken a major step in refining laser plasma acceleration, a technology that could revolutionize particle ...

Physics are sketching the designs of a particle accelerator that would be radically smaller and cheaper than existing ...

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 ...

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 ...