A new particle accelerator at Michigan State University is set to discover thousands of never-before-seen isotopes. Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, CC BY-ND Just a few hundred feet from where we are ...

The Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory set a world record when its linear accelerator reached an operating power of 1.55 megawatts, which improves on ...

MENLO PARK -- Thousands of commuters on I-280 drive over literally the coolest spot in the universe every day where the upgraded Stanford Linear Accelerator requires those freezing temperatures to ...

Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the ...

Click to open image viewer. Three sections of Stanford Mark I linear electron accelerator. From left, EM.N-10089-A, EM.N-10089-B; EM.318223 CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. IIIF ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world leader in providing intense neutron beams to instruments used by scientists. Bombarding materials with high concentrations of neutrons helps scientists ...

Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each travel together at nearly the speed of light through metal piping. These electron ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Sean Liddick, Associate Professor of Chemistry, ...

The facility produces neutrons by accelerating protons down a 300-meter-long linear accelerator, around an accumulator ring and into a liquid mercury target. Upon impact, a “spall” of neutrons is ...

Sean Liddick receives funding from the Department of Energy . Artemis Spyrou receives funding from the National Science Foundation in the U.S. Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a ...