Summary Researchers and industry use particle accelerators for a wide range of tasks, such as cancer treatment, scientific research, and searching for oil.

Recent advancements in particle acceleration technology have led to the discovery of a new method that promises to ...

Particle accelerators (often referred to as “atom smashers”) use strong electric fields to push streams of subatomic particles—usually protons or electrons—to tremendous speeds. Accelerators by the ...

Our particle accelerator builds on the technological and scientific know-how of machines like the LHC, but manages to shrink it down so that accelerators can be put to immediate practical use in ...

Our particle accelerator builds on the technological and scientific know-how of machines like the LHC, but manages to shrink it down so that accelerators can be put to immediate practical use in ...

Shorter, powerful accelerators could find use in electron microscopes and cancer treatments.

Scientists have invented a new type of accelerator structure that could make accelerators used for a given application 10 times shorter. Particle accelerators generate high-energy beams of ...

But particle accelerators are much more than enormous toys for scientists to play with. They have practical uses too, though their sheer size has, so far, prevented their widespread use. Now, as ...

This is the story of how particle accelerators got bigger and more powerful, and how they’ve been crucial to our understanding of the most fundamental structures and interactions in our universe.

French scientists have devised a way of using particle accelerators to authenticate vintage wines, one of France's top research bodies said this week.

This discovery was made possible by the use of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, a particle accelerator for analyzing matter.