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On tabletop accelerators
Tabletop accelerators are an exciting new field of research in which physicists use devices the size of a shoe box, or something just a bit bigger, to accelerate electrons to high energies. The ‘conventional way’ to do this has been … Continue reading
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The pocket-sized accelerator
The world’s largest machine is called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It’s in the shape of a ring with a circumference of 26 km, and cost $3.4 billion (Rs 24,262 crore) and 12 years to build. Using millions of electrical … Continue reading
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Tagged acceleration gradient, ACHIP, biofuels production, cargo screening, flue gas treatment, inverse design, laser plasma acceleration, materials processing, particle accelerator, photonic circuit, photonic integrated circuit, Robert L Byer, slab waveguide, sterilisation, tabletop accelerator, wakefield accelerator, water treatment
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