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    A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to linac) is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high...
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    A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies to contain them in well-defined...
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    The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a proposed linear particle accelerator. It is planned to have a collision energy of 500 GeV initially, with...
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    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a federally funded research and development center in...
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  • A list of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed...
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    The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a concept for a future linear particle accelerator that aims to explore the next energy frontier. CLIC would collide...
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    A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932...
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  • spacecraft charging. Cyclotron particle accelerators, linear particle accelerators, and synchrotron particle accelerators can accelerate negatively charged...
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  • Accelerator physics is a branch of applied physics, concerned with designing, building and operating particle accelerators. As such, it can be described...
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    is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop...
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    high-energy particle physics. Fermilab's Main Injector, two miles (3.3 km) in circumference, is the laboratory's most powerful particle accelerator. The accelerator...
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    Future Circular Collider (category Proposed particle accelerators)
    The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is a proposed particle accelerator with an energy significantly above that of previous circular colliders, such as the...
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    originally developed as a particle accelerator for physics research, as its high potential can be used to accelerate subatomic particles to great speeds in an...
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    Dipole magnet (category Accelerator physics)
    all over the screen. Accelerator physics Beam line Cyclotron Electromagnetism Linear particle accelerator Particle accelerator Quadrupole magnet Sextupole...
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    the growth of malignant cells. It is normally delivered by a linear particle accelerator. Radiation therapy may be curative in a number of types of cancer...
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  • Circular Electron Positron Collider (category Proposed particle accelerators)
    another post-LHC linear particle accelerator planned at CERN International Linear Collider – another post-LHC linear particle accelerator planned in Japan...
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    series based on it. List of accelerators in particle physics Accelerator projects Circular Electron Positron Collider Compact Linear Collider Future Circular...
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    of B mesons. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (Menlo Park, United States). Its 2-mile-long linear particle accelerator began operating in 1962 and...
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  • Collider (redirect from Particle collider)
    be ring accelerators or linear accelerators. Colliders are used as a research tool in particle physics by accelerating particles to very high kinetic energy...
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    Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (category Particle physics facilities)
    intense proton beams and heavy ions such as Gold. Brookhaven's linear particle accelerator (LINAC) provides 200 million electron volt (MeV) protons to the...
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    Hadron-Elektron-Ringanlage, English: Hadron–Electron Ring Accelerator) was a particle accelerator at DESY in Hamburg. It was operated from 1992 to 30 June...
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    the linear accelerators. When a nucleus in the target is hit by an electron from the beam, an "interaction", or "event", occurs, scattering particles into...
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    A dielectric wall accelerator (DWA) is a compact linear particle accelerator concept designed and patented in the late 1990s, that works by inducing a...
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    approach was designed for a linear particle accelerator or Linac. Installation of the first 4 MeV clinical linear accelerator began in June 1952 in the...
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    high-intensity superconducting linear particle accelerator for light ions, belongs to a new generation of particle accelerators. The high ion current generates...
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  • into the charged particle beam. The linear induction accelerator was invented by Christofilos in the 1960s. Linear induction accelerators are capable of...
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    generated 49 petabytes of data. CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research...
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    electrostatic "tandem accelerator". This is a large nuclear particle accelerator based on the principle of a tandem van de Graaff accelerator operating at 0...
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    approximately 695 employees. KEK's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics, material...
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  • Polymer scattering with neutrons Electrostatic nuclear accelerator Linear induction accelerator Betatron Linear particle accelerator Cyclotron Synchrotron...
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