Particle Accelerator
By the late 1890s, it had become obvious to scientists that John Dalton's (1766-1844) concept of a solid, indivisible atom was incorrect. In 1897 Joseph J. Thomson (1856-1940) sho...
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Accelerators
The term accelerators most commonly refers to particle accelerators, devices for increasing the velocity of subatomic particles such as protons, electrons, and positrons. Particle acceler...
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Particle Accelerators
Particle accelerators, as the name suggests, accelerate particles to ultra-high velocities in order to study high-energy collision processes. Because all energy in the collision ...
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The Collider Detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, home of the Tevatron. (Corbis Corporation)
Accelerator Facts
The first accelerator, built by J.D. Cockroft and E.T. Walton in 19...
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Particle Accelerator
Accelerators
Particle Accelerators