Les accélérateurs de particules : vecteurs de découvertes, moteurs de développement.

by Dr. Philippe Lebrun

Particle accelerators have been used in fundamental research for over a century, allowing physicists to discover elementary particles and study them at increasingly smaller scales. Making use of emerging technologies whose progress they helped to stimulate, they developed exponentially throughout the 20th century to become major tools for research today, not only in particle physics but also – as powerful radiation sources for probing matter – in atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics and materials science. They have also found applications in society, where they are increasingly used in a wide range of fields including applied sciences, medicine (research and clinical applications) and industry. The lecture will cover examples of these applications and further development opportunities.

This lecture is organised within the framework of CERN60 events http://cern60.web.cern.ch/

If you are in the Geneva region and would like to come to this talk at the Globe, please reserve your place via +41 22 767 76 76 or cern.reception@cern.ch. For those attending in person, simultaneous translation into English will be provided.