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.
MIT physicists and colleagues report new insights into exotic particles key to a form of magnetism that has attracted growing interest because it originates from ultrathin materials only a few atomic layers thick. The work, ...
General Physics
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It sounds fantastical, but it's a reality for the scientists who work at the world's largest particle collider.
Condensed Matter
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When you push "start" on your microwave or computer, the device flips right on—but major physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, don't work that ...
General Physics
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A team including researchers from the Laboratory for High Energy Physics at the University of Bern has successfully measured the interaction rates of neutrinos at unprecedented energies using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...
General Physics
Jul 16, 2024
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While taking snapshots with the high-speed electron camera at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory, researchers discovered new behavior in an ultrathin material that offers a promising approach ...
Nanophysics
Jul 10, 2024
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The propagation of charged particles in a medium at a speed exceeding the phase speed of light in the medium (this speed also called superluminal) leads to the generation of radiation. The diagram of generated radiation during ...
Optics & Photonics
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The ATLAS Experiment at CERN has made two years' worth of scientific data available to the public for research purposes. The data include recordings of proton–proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a collision ...
General Physics
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When ultrafast electrons are deflected, they emit light—synchrotron radiation. This is used in so-called storage rings in which magnets force the particles onto a closed path. This light is longitudinally incoherent and consists ...
Optics & Photonics
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After a year of installation and commissioning, the new electron storage ring at the heart of the Advanced Photon Source—powered by a world's first injection technique—is ready for business.
Optics & Photonics
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A research team in China has initiated and successfully developed a jet origin identification technology which can significantly enhance the scientific discovery capabilities of high-energy collider experiments.
General Physics
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