Physicists Found the Ghost Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator
CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron will turn 50 in 2026—and it has a resonant “ghost.” Using mathematics, physicists measured ...
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Particles Are Back In Accelerators
Linear Accelerator 4 (Linac4), the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB), the Proton Synchrotron (PS), the Super Proton ...
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CERN measures coupled resonance structure that may cause particle loss in accelerators for the first time
More information: H. Bartosik et al, Observation of fixed lines induced by a nonlinear resonance in the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron, Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02338-3 ...
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Manchester scientists contribute to world first breakthrough at CERN
The test, using the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN, showed that bunches of protons can be tilted, which increases the bunches’ surface area. This is important because it allows scientists to ...