Adopting innovative approaches to overcome complex construction challenges, the team has forged a unique "Chinese path" for ...

The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) operates as one of the world’s premier high-intensity proton accelerator facilities. Designed to deliver beams with energies up to 3 GeV, J-PARC ...

A new US-wide national research network called LaserNetUS involves nine institutions across the country. The collaboration includes the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...

Beam me up Interaction Point 2 at the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator will be used to study plasma physics, research cancer therapies and for quantum science. (Courtesy: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) A ...

The Large Helical Device (LHD) and the heavy ion beam probe (HIBP) system. The inset on the left shows an enlarged view of the section from the negative ion source to the injection side of the tandem ...

Space charge effects, arising from the mutual electrostatic repulsion between charged particles in a beam, represent a critical limitation in the performance and stability of high-intensity ...

In 2012, particle accelerators hit the headlines when researchers at CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. This breakthrough discovery resulted from decades of research and experimentation ...

Readers of Universe Today are probably already familiar with the concept of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Its serendipitous discovery by a pair of radio astronomers at Bell Labs is the stuff ...