In a new Nature Physics study, researchers accelerated electrons to more than twice the energy predicted by the traditional ...

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle ...

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive research sites. In this case, the light produced fell in the extreme ...

Cygnus X-3 provides opportunity to test how black holes and other objects launch particles to highest energies in the Milky Way, team says A China-led team has detected the highest-energy light ...

Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland is the most massive, most ambitious experiment ever undertaken by humanity. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator that uses a ...

CERN shuts down the Large Hadron Collider for four years to prepare a major upgrade that could transform particle physics.

Within the constellation Aquila in the northern skies, a powerful cosmic accelerator has been pumping out fast-moving ...

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TO GET to Edda Gschwendtner’s experiment, you enter a small, brutalist building at CERN, Europe’s particle physics laboratory on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. You head into the lift and ...

China’s Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has identified the most powerful particle ...

Particle accelerators (often referred to as “atom smashers”) use strong electric fields to push streams of subatomic particles—usually protons or electrons—to tremendous speeds. Accelerators by the ...

Most people assume that being struck by an intense beam of radiation would be instantly fatal. For Soviet physicist Anatoli ...