Physicists Found the Ghost Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator
CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron will turn 50 in 2026—and it has a resonant “ghost.” Using mathematics, physicists measured ...
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Particles Are Back In Accelerators
The second link in the chain, the PS Booster, received its first particles on 26 February, the PS on 4 March and, today, the ...
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CERN measures coupled resonance structure that may cause particle loss in accelerators for the first time
More information: H. Bartosik et al, Observation of fixed lines induced by a nonlinear resonance in the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron, Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02338-3 ...
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Manchester physicists help pave the way for new generation of particle physics experiments
The AWAKE proof-of-concept compact accelerator project injects a ‘drive’ beam of protons from CERN’s SPS accelerator into a plasma column. As the particles travel through the plasma, they generate a ...
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Manchester scientists contribute to world first breakthrough at CERN
The test, using the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN, showed that bunches of protons can be tilted, which increases the bunches’ surface area. This is important because it allows scientists to ...