Accelerator physics is a branch of applied physics, concerned with designing, building and operating particle accelerators. As such, it can be described...
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of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed...
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them in well-defined beams. Small accelerators are used for fundamental research in particle physics. Accelerators are also used as synchrotron light...
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a federally funded research and development center in...
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higher-energy accelerators, and are used directly to achieve the highest kinetic energy for light particles (electrons and positrons) for particle physics. The...
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Cyclotron (redirect from Cyclotronic particle accelerator)
the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for this invention. The cyclotron was the first "cyclical" accelerator. The primary accelerators before the development...
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particle accelerator is a complex machine that takes elementary charged particles and accelerates them to very high energies. Accelerator physics is a field...
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Fermilab (redirect from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
particle physics. Fermilab's Main Injector, two miles (3.3 km) in circumference, is the laboratory's most powerful particle accelerator. The accelerator complex...
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Synchrotron (redirect from Synchrotron accelerator)
A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around...
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Van de Graaff generator (redirect from Tandem van de Graaff accelerator)
Van de Graaff generator was originally developed as a particle accelerator for physics research, as its high potential can be used to accelerate subatomic...
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