linear accelerator

A linear accelerator is a type of particle accelerator that greatly increases the kinetic energy of charged subatomic particles or ions by subjecting the charged particles to a series of oscillating electric potentials along a linear beamline. 

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Accelerator Report: Protons or Easter eggs? Let’s hope for both

Beam commissioning is progressing well across the entire accelerator complex, but challenges have arisen, in particular in Linac4, highlighting the complexities involved

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Accelerators
28 March, 2024

CLIC technology lights the way to compact accelerators

A new project uses technology originally developed for CERN’s Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) to help build compact X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs)

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Knowledge sharing
01 February, 2018
Knowledge sharing
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01 February, 2018

Here’s to a long life for Linac 4!

Ten years after it was approved, CERN’s new accelerator is officially inaugurated

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Accelerators
23 May, 2017
Accelerators
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23 May, 2017

Power napping for detectors

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) study is looking at silicon capacitors to help with power pulsing

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Accelerators
06 December, 2013
Accelerators
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06 December, 2013

New beam dump for a veteran accelerator

Watch CERN engineers install a new beam dump at the Proton Synchrotron Booster, one of CERN's older accelerators

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Engineering
11 October, 2013
Engineering
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11 October, 2013

Testing begins for CERN's future linear accelerator

Linear accelerator 4 will deliver particles to the Proton-Synchrotron Booster at more than triple the energy the current linac achieves

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Accelerators
29 August, 2012
Accelerators
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29 August, 2012