Accelerators and storage rings are coupled physical systems designed to generate, manipulate, and store high-energy charged particle beams under precisely controlled electromagnetic fields. Accelerators, such as linear accelerators or synchrotrons, use radiofrequency cavities and magnet lattices (dipoles, quadrupoles, higher multipoles) to incrementally increase beam energy and control transverse and longitudinal dynamics. Storage rings maintain beams on closed orbits for extended durations, employing sophisticated lattice designs, beam optics, and feedback systems to preserve emittance, energy spread, and stability while enabling collisions or extraction for experiments, synchrotron radiation production, or secondary beam generation.
Together with an international team, researchers from the Molecular Physics Department at the Fritz Haber Institute have revealed how atoms rearrange themselves before releasing low-energy electrons in a decay process initiated ...
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Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle collider, located at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research—have new evidence that a ...
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Researchers have reported new experimental results addressing the origin of rare proton-rich isotopes heavier than iron, called p-nuclei. Led by Artemis Tsantiri, then-graduate student at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams ...
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A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission from fluorine-25, a rare, unstable nuclide. Using the FRIB Decay Station Initiator (FDSi), the team ...
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Behind every particle collision generated at the Large Hadron Collider is a multitude of technical feats. One of these is refrigeration on an industrial scale. To guide the particles, the thousands of superconducting magnets ...
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Running a synchrotron light source is a massive team effort that brings hundreds of highly skilled and specialized professionals together. The radiofrequency (RF) group at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), ...
General Physics
Dec 11, 2025
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While synchrotron radiation is often thought of as "stable," the electromagnetic field exhibits pronounced randomly fluctuating distributions both temporally and spatially. These fluctuations encode spatial information about ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 5, 2025
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Synchrotron radiation sources generate highly brilliant light pulses, ranging from infrared to hard X-rays, which can be used to gain deep insights into complex materials.
Condensed Matter
Dec 2, 2025
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The Isotope Separator On-Line facility (ISOLDE) directs a proton beam from the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) onto specially developed thick targets, producing low-energy beams of radioactive nuclei—those with too many ...
General Physics
Dec 1, 2025
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The understanding of complex many-body dynamics in laser-driven polyatomic molecules is crucial for any attempt to steer chemical reactions by means of intense light fields. Ultrashort and intense X-ray pulses from accelerator-based ...
General Physics
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