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Accelerator Location Years of operation Shape and size Accelerated particle Kinetic Energy Notes and discoveries made Linear particle accelerator: Aachen University, Germany 1928 Linear Beamline Ion 50 keV Proof of concept Cockcroft and Walton's electrostatic accelerator Cavendish Laboratory: 1932 See Cockroft-Walton generator: Proton 0.7 MeV
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Fermilab's Main Injector, two miles (3.3 km) in circumference, is the laboratory's most powerful particle accelerator . [ 2 ]
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), commonly called Jefferson Lab or JLab, is a US Department of Energy National Laboratory located in Newport News, Virginia. [ 1 ] Since June 1, 2006, it has been operated by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, a limited liability company created by Southeastern Universities Research ...
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – has sprung back to life after a three-year shutdown. ... USA TODAY. GM dealer Rick Hendrick pays $3.7M to ...
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, [2] [3] is a federally funded research and development center in Menlo Park, California, United States. Founded in 1962, the laboratory is now sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administrated by Stanford University .
The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR, pronounced Caesar) is a particle accelerator operated by Cornell University and located 40 feet beneath a football field on their Ithaca campus. [1] The accelerator has contributed to fundamental research in high energy physics and accelerator physics, as well as solid state physics, biology, art history ...
The Tevatron (background circle), a synchrotron collider type particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, Illinois, USA. Shut down in 2011, until 2007 it was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, accelerating protons to an energy of over 1 TeV (tera electron volts). Beams of protons and ...
The National Electrostatics Corporation (NEC), a company based in Wisconsin, USA, produces particle accelerators and associated equipment. The firm incorporated in 1965, and as of 2010 [update] has a workforce of approximately 105 people.