A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...

Machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, vastly speeds up computational tasks and enables new technology in areas as broad as speech and image recognition, self-driving cars, stock market ...

Riding the wave: electrons being accelerated by a laser pulse. (Courtesy: Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science) Accelerator physicists in five European countries are developing plans for the ...

Accelerator experts have used a laser to manipulate electron bunches at PTB's Metrology Light Source so that they emitted intense light pulses having a laser-like character. Using this method, ...

The most modern light sources for research are based on particle accelerators. These are large facilities in which electrons are accelerated to almost the speed of light, and then emit light pulses of ...

Atoms will reveal their secrets—you just need enough speed to coerce them. Scientists have known this since at least the 1920s, when they first started firing particles at nuclei via large tubes ...

It takes years of on-the-job training to learn the ins and outs of particle accelerator operation. Despite the fact that accelerator operators are essential to keeping an accelerator laboratory afloat ...

Adopting innovative approaches to overcome complex construction challenges, the team has forged a unique "Chinese path" for ...

Cosmic collider: could an advanced civilization harness a black hole Has an advanced alien civilization built a black-hole-powered particle accelerator to study physics at “Planck-scale” energies? And ...