Particle accelerators produce and accelerate beams of charged particles, such as electrons, protons and ions, of atomic and sub-atomic size. They are used not only in fundamental research for an ...

So-called "nuclear accelerators" are used to split the atom for scientific research, but most particle accelerators are built for more practical applications. They are used to manufacture myriad ...

Physicists often use machine learning to automate the task of tuning particle accelerators in real time ... his collaborators have now shown 1 how to do this with a particular type of machine ...

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle ...

A particle accelerator is used for health, safety, discovery, and for learning more about our universe. You can't see what it does, but you can feel it." LA wildfires: death toll rises to 24 as ...

These shock waves are one of nature's most powerful particle accelerators and have long intrigued ... "However, as we demonstrated in this work, by combining phenomena across different scales ...

Work on the gigantic particle accelerator in Campinas, some 90 kilometers from Sao Paulo, began in 2015. Six synchrotron light beams are expected to be operational in 2020 -- short of the 13 ...

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator is ready to start delivering proton collisions to experiments at a record-breaking energy level after three years of upgrade and maintenance work. The ...

Forward-looking: There's an exciting new cancer treatment on the horizon called Flash radiotherapy that could shake up the field as we know it. Rather than delivering radiation over several ...