A particle accelerator is not some kind of evil super villain torture device. A particle accelerator is used for health, ...

An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

The pumps that circulate gas mixtures through these particle detectors must be extremely reliable and keep the gases contamination-free. To meet these strict requirements, the particle collider relies ...

The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China's decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Cluster satellites have discovered that cosmic particle accelerators are more efficient than previously thought. The discovery has revealed the initial stages of ...

Every time two beams of particles collide inside an accelerator, the universe lets us in on a little secret. Sometimes it's a particle no one has ever seen. Other times, it's a fleeting glimpse of ...

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Texas A&M University professor Peter McIntyre and his colleagues want to build a particle accelerator around the rim of the Gulf of Mexico in order to discover the most fundamental building blocks of ...

Twenty-five feet below ground, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientist Spencer Gessner opens a large metal picnic basket. This is not your typical picnic basket filled with cheese, bread and ...

A California-based company is getting $150M from the Trump Administration to build a particle accelerator at Albany Nanotech.

Particle accelerators (often referred to as “atom smashers”) use strong electric fields to push streams of subatomic particles—usually protons or electrons—to tremendous speeds. Accelerators by the ...