Building desktop particle accelerators to unlock new realms of research

Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important step toward miniaturization of particle accelerators by ...
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Desktop particle accelerators are opening new frontiers in physics

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...
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Tiny Particle Accelerator Is Millions of Times Smaller Than CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Scientists have activated the smallest particle accelerator ever built—a tiny device roughly the size of a coin. This advancement opens new doors for particle acceleration, promising exciting ...

'Near-misses' in particle accelerators can illuminate new physics, study finds

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...
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What CERN does next matters for science and for international cooperation

Fresh from their historic discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, researchers using CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the main particle accelerator at the European particle-physics laboratory near ...