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 ...

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 ...

But in the past 40 years or so physicists working at particle accelerators—or "atom smashers ... In this gallery, view visual representations of the most important fundamental particle ...

The world's only particle accelerator used regularly in the analysis of art has gone back into use at the Louvre museum in Paris. The accelerator has been rebuilt to allow it to investigate ...