Reader [Xellers] sent in his newest instructable: DIY Electron Accelerator: A Cathode Ray Tube in a Wine Bottle. While not exactly what you might think of a cathode ray tube, the basics are in place.

At the beginning of an experiment, a beam of electrons may have a rest energy of 1/2 million electron volts; it is directed through a linear "pre-accelerator" (or "injector") where the energy is ...

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of ... channel in various sizes up to 0.5 millimeters long. An electron beam moves through the channel. Very short infrared laser ...

A team of physicists has outlined a possible way of sending probes deep into interstellar space within a reasonable timescale, using relativistic electron beams.

Particle accelerators ... gigaelectronvolt-scale electron beams — us and researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, who also have access to a 50-TW laser beam. The Berkeley group used ...

Ion implanters can also improve the reliability of materials used for medical implants. There are almost 10 000 electron beam accelerators in operation globally. They can, for example, help make ...

Getting a spacecraft to another star is a monumental challenge. However, that doesn't stop people from working on it. The ...

Between 2002 and 2017, accelerator-based ion beam techniques not only revealed the presence of many elements in collected samples but also helped to identify likely sources of air pollution. In ...