When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle ...

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator that moves protons, one kind of charged particle comprising atoms, along a spiral path to strike a target. What does it do? Particle/proton accelerators ...

When it comes to building particle accelerators the credo has always ... In 1929 Ernest Lawrence came up with the much more compact cyclotron, which accelerates particles along a spiral path ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) does what it says on the tin. It accelerates protons and ions to a speed never achieved ...

Scientists have activated the smallest particle accelerator ever built—a tiny device roughly the size of a coin. This ...

Photo: Four-inch copper-encased cyclotron, one of Ernest ... happened to read a German paper describing a linear accelerator that boosted a particle's energy in steps using alternating electric ...

At present, Preston says, the Harvard machine can be considered an "intermediate energy cyclotron;" there are about half a dozen larger accelerators of this type in the world. Beyond a certain ...

Dr. Smith began his academic passion in the field of Accelerator Physics. After building a cyclotron, a small particle accelerator, as an undergraduate at Knox College, Jeff matriculated at Cornell ...

A large proportion of these radioisotopes are produced in particle accelerators, and the number of institutions that operate linear accelerators or cyclotrons and manufacture and distribute ...

About 35 accelerator physicists and engineers worked ... while the laboratory's main control room continues to operate the Coupled Cyclotron Facility at the National Superconducting Cyclotron ...

Researchers in Japan are developing world-leading expertise in making and using the alpha particle emitter ... are among five centres using cyclotron accelerators to make the radionuclide ...