Scientists have successfully activated the world’s smallest particle accelerator, a device as compact as a coin. This ...

A “ghost particle” discovered by a detector in the Mediterranean carried 30 times more energy than any neutrino observed to ...

Particle Accelerators The evolution of these huge machines is still proceeding at a lively pace. They are used for two purposes: to "see" fundamental particles of matter and to create new ones ...

When it comes to building particle accelerators the credo has always been “bigger, badder, better”. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with its 27 km circumference and €7.5 billion budget ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle ...

Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. They allow ...

While the concept of Flash originated from radiobiologists over a decade ago, CERN is adapting its particle accelerators – originally designed for smashing atoms – to deliver radiation at ...

So-called "nuclear accelerators" are used to split the atom for scientific research, but most particle accelerators are built for more practical applications. They are used to manufacture myriad ...