World first: Fraunhofer IWS for the very first time prints quadrupole components for linear accelerators A new generation of particle accelerators aims at taking cancer therapy, drug detection and ...

This Collection showcases original research on linear accelerator (LINAC) technologies, covering topics from the design and optimisation of LINAC components and beam diagnostics, to emerging ...

The 1940s saw the origins of linear electron accelerators that directly led to the 2-mile-long accelerator at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. SLAC archivist Jean Deken presents a pictorial history ...

The international X-ray laser European XFEL has reached one of its final major milestones on the way to scientific user operation. DESY has successfully commissioned the particle accelerator, which ...

According to Navid Nejatbakhsh, the device is now completely ready to use and awaits proper licenses, IRNA reported on Tuesday. A linear accelerator (LINAC) is the device most commonly used for ...

As physicists developed plans for building an electron-ion collider (EIC)—a next-generation nuclear physics facility to be built at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory for ...

With the introduction of the Cornell-Brookhaven ERL Test Accelerator, scientists are following up on the concept of energy-recovering particle accelerators first introduced by physicist Maury Tigner ...

ITHACA, NY--Scientists from Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have successfully demonstrated the world's first capture and reuse of ...

Photoneutron contamination arises when high‐energy therapeutic X‐rays interacting with high‐Z components in a linear accelerator head induce (γ,n) reactions, producing stray neutrons that contribute ...

CERN physicist Edda Gschwendtner explains why we need big machines to study tiny particles. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is a whopping 27 kilometers in circumference. Edda Gschwendtner, physicist ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - With the introduction of CBETA, the Cornell-Brookhaven ERL Test Accelerator, Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists are following up on the concept of ...