Wolfgang “Pief” Panofsky, the nuclear physicist and brilliant administrator who was the driving force for the creation of Stanford University’s 2-mile-long linear electron accelerator, made crucial ...

Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the ...

The TRIUMF nuclear and particle physics laboratory in British Columbia is to build an extremely intense electron linear accelerator in order to produce radioactive isotopes for fundamental research ...

The first particle accelerators were developed in the 1920s. They were quickly at the forefront of discoveries in nuclear physics and chemistry. The concept and technology of accelerators developed so ...

There is technology being perfected to make particle accelerators 100-1000 times lower cost. This would enable production of nuclear material for space propulsion that could reach up to 0.5% of light ...

Taken from the February 2021 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "The beams at the edge of physics". Creating a new cutting-edge accelerator isn’t cheap or easy. But as Kit ...