An international team of researchers is pushing forward with plans for a radically smaller, cheaper particle accelerator by using a powerful technique that's been decades in the making, known as the ...

The USA has only two accelerators that can produce 10 billion electron-volt particle beams, and they're each about 1.9 miles (3 km) long. "We can now reach those energies in 10 cm (4 inches)," said ...

For particle physicists, getting "more bang for the buck," means colliding particles at higher energies for lower cost. In a recent breakthrough, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have ...

SLAC researchers Spencer Gessner, left, and Sebastien Corde monitor pairs of electron bunches sent into a plasma inside an oven of hot lithium gas at the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental ...

Twenty-five feet below ground, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientist Spencer Gessner opens a large metal picnic basket. This is not your typical picnic basket filled with cheese, bread and ...

A simple metamaterial made from alternating steel and copper plates has been used to improve the tunability and beam quality of wakefield particle accelerators. The work was done in the US by ...

Tiny but energetic: this gas cell is a key component of a compact laser wakefield accelerator developed at the University of Texas at Austin. (Courtesy: Bjorn Manuel Hegelich) A highly stable laser ...

Three new studies show the promise and challenge of using plasma wakefield acceleration to build a future electron-positron collider. Matter is known to exist in four different states: solid, liquid, ...