Accelerator Definition and 219 Threads

The Bates Laboratory and the Harvard Cyclotron lab use to be the only two labs in New England that I knew of which had high energy particle accelerators. The Harvard lab shut down and Bates lab will be shutting down in the future. There is a new lab in Boston at the Northeast Proton Therapy...

So, according to Relativity, as an oject approaches the speed of light, it's mass increases and the Energy required to sustain the motion goes to infinity, basically making high speed travel almost impossible. How is it that Particle accelerators are able to accelerate Protons at 99.99% of...

Through random chance, I decided one day that I would build a proton accelerator. I understand the concepts of the physics that are involved well enough, but the actual construction is a bit of a mystery. There is a surprising number of rescources on the construction, but they mostly involve...

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It is time for my HS Physics Class final project. I have about a month to design and build a piece of equipment to show my knowledge of any topic we have covered this year. My idea was to have a basic small magnetic linear accelerator ( just basic type for shooting steel balls such as this...

Heres one more question In a particle accelerator, an alpha particle with a mass of 6.64 x10^-27 kg is moving with a speed of 2.50x10^7 m/s. It is moving perpendicularily through a magnetic field of intensity 0.150 T. Using appropriote equations and method find the radius of curvature of...

How do particle accelerators contribute to physics? I know after you smash particles together, you get a bunch of resultant particles, and then they annihilate. But we've been doing that for a long time; we've observed many collisions, and many particles, so why do we keep smashing particles...

I've just got my final year project assigned. It has to do with a numerical simulation of a Ram Accelerator device. Well, apart of having doubts, which I will post just here proximately, I would want to know some website to learn more about that type of device. Apart of Google sites...

Ive been working on this problem for a few hours and can't get the last few parts. In a linear accelerator, protons are accelerated from rest through a potential difference to a speed of approximately 3.1 X 10^6 meters per second. The resulting proton beam produces a current of 2 X 10^-6...

Ok I am doing a physics the 11 Qestions of physics that are hooped to be explained by the end of this century or decade or somthing like that. I ended up with the question: What is a cosmic acelerator and what does it accelerate. I know that it accelerates Cosmic Rays but i don't know what the...

hi all its has been told in books that a particle accelerator can reproduce the initial conditions in the Universe But we know that this gadgets have very high voltages but low currents so the product V*I = Energy is not too high to assert that I think lighting can carry much more energy...

Has anyone ever been to Fermi Lab near Chicago? I was wondering about it, because I read about it in a book talking about particle accelerators.

Can anyone give me a link to or information about how to build a PRACTICAL particle accelerator? Like one that would fit inside a basement or garage? Please, no handhelds that can't do much, and no mile-long underground accelerators that require their own nuclear power plant. I am interested...

This is a little bit of a mouthful but any help would be greatly appreciated. :smile: I am building a linear accelerator similar to the one found on this site: http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/gauss.html This is for a physics 12 project with my friends, but only it is on a...

Last summer I finished my Tesla Coil and am now working on my next summer project, a small particle accelerator. I figured the easiest place to start would be with some sort of Van de Graff generator. I was wondering if anyone out there has built any similar device and has any useful tips...

I was wondering how to build a particle accelerator at home. If it is possible, please tell me how. Thank You -ATCG

I have seen a few references to neutral particle accelerators, anybody know how they work? For example, how would it be possible to accelerate a neutron to near-c velocity?

I enjoy the X-Files; big surprise eh? Sometime the references to scientific subjects just kill me. I just saw an episode where Moldy and Smelly visit an particle accelerator. They use billions of megawatts to make Meesons.

does somebody knows how a linear acccelerator works or know any website about the accelerators. and how much it costs to built a cheap home made laser.