• physics, a charged particle is a particle with an electric charge. For example, some elementary particles, like the electron or quarks are charged. Some composite...
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  • A charged particle beam is a spatially localized group of electrically charged particles that have approximately the same position, kinetic energy (resulting...
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    In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. The Standard Model...
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    A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies to contain them in well-defined...
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    (an aspect of Faraday's law of induction), and the force on a moving charged particle. Historians suggest that the law is implicit in a paper by James Clerk...
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  • A particle beam is a stream of charged or neutral particles. In particle accelerators, these particles can move with a velocity close to the speed of light...
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    Cherenkov radiation (category Particle physics)
    as Čerenkov radiation) is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium (such as distilled...
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  • In radiological physics, charged-particle equilibrium (CPE) occurs when the number of charged particles leaving a volume is equal to the number entering...
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    whether (for a fixed particle charge and direction) the quadrupole focuses or defocuses particles in the horizontal plane. Charged particle beam Dipole magnet...
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    Hamiltonian of a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. In Cartesian coordinates the Lagrangian of a non-relativistic classical particle in an electromagnetic...
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