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.

A new particle detector has passed a crucial test, demonstrating it's ready to start investigating quark-gluon plasma, the ...

In fact the resemblance to an artificial particle accelerator is stronger than just the fact that they both use magnetic fields. Why is the Large Hadron Collider so … what’s the word … ...

Particle accelerators have gone from niche scientific communities to the mainstream in recent decades, and technology keeps improving.

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. It uses magnetic and electric fields to speed up charged particles like protons or ions to very high speeds. This allows the particles to collide with ...

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

This summer, physicists plan to turn on a 16-mile-long particle accelerator. It will smash together subatomic particles at incredible force. Physicist Alvaro De Rujula's $8 billion project may be ...

The University of Michigan has its own particle accelerator at the Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory on North Campus.

Physicists are building a particle accelerator that will smash subatomic particles together with tremendous force. What they find may solve some fundamental mysteries about how the universe is ...

A microchip with the electron-accelerating structures with, in comparison, a one cent coin. If you think of a particle accelerator, what may come to mind is something like CERN’s Large Hadron ...

Scientists have used particle accelerators to produce around 3,000 of these rare isotopes. The FRIB accelerator is 1,600 feet long and made of three segments folded in roughly the shape of a ...

4,850 feet beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, there’s an underground particle accelerator in a former gold mine. Here, a motorcycle-riding nuclear astrophysicist named Mark Hanhardt thinks ...