Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each travel together at nearly the speed of light through metal piping. These electron ...
Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really precision tools that use electric fields and magnets to steer tiny beams of matter ...
Plasma-wakefield-based acceleration technology has enabled the generation of very bright particle bunches of ultrashort duration, micrometer size and low emittance. However, it is still extremely ...