Researchers build plasma accelerator that boosts electron energy and brightness at the same time

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...
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Powerful linear accelerator begins smashing atoms – 2 scientists on the team explain how it could reveal rare forms of matter

Sean Liddick receives funding from the Department of Energy . Artemis Spyrou receives funding from the National Science Foundation in the U.S. Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a ...
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Scientists build a particle accelerator one molecule wide

Physicists have now demonstrated a particle accelerator so small it fits inside a single molecule, shrinking one of science’s most imposing machines to the scale of chemistry. Instead of ...
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Better Accelerators to Produce Kilograms of Isotopes for Fast Space Propulsion

There is technology being perfected to make particle accelerators 100-1000 times lower cost. This would enable production of nuclear material for space propulsion that could reach up to 0.5% of light ...