Linear accelerators, LINACs for short, are devices that accelerate electrons or other sub-atomic particles along a straight line to generate a beam of high energy. LINACs have a variety of commercial ...

Particle accelerators are the engines of particle physics research at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. They generate nearly light-speed, subatomic particles that scientists study to get to the ...

Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really precision tools that use electric fields and magnets to steer tiny beams of matter ...

CLIC: The Compact Linear Collider by Elizabeth Clements reporting from Geneva, Switzerland As the Global Design Effort for the proposed International Linear Collider starts to take shape, an ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is where the miraculous meets the impractical. In addition to probing the secrets of the Universe at the subatomic level, it also has potential for a variety of ...

Particle accelerators range in size from massive to compact, but researchers from Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created one that's downright miniscule. What you ...

Experiments at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S. have taken us a step forward in developing a technology that could significantly reduce the size of particle accelerators and allow ...

LUDHIANA, India, July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Christian Medical College & Hospital (CMC) Ludhiana is the site of the first Elekta Compact' linear accelerator in the world to be field-upgraded to an ...