Tiniest particle accelerator is so small it could fit into a pen tip

Tiny particle accelerator

A side view of the tiny particle accelerator Tomáš Chlouba, Roy Shiloh, Stefanie Kraus, et al. A particle accelerator just 0.2 millimetres long is the smallest device of its kind ever built. It is the first tiny accelerator that can produce fast and well-focused bunches of electrons, and could have medical applications. Eventually it could … Read more

2022 preview: Large Hadron Collider will reach for the edge of physics

By Matthew Sparkes The Large Hadron Collider has been shut down for upgrades since 2018 CERN THE Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, will start running again after a three-year shutdown and delays due to the covid-19 pandemic. The particle collider – known for its role in the discovery of the Higgs … Read more