Scientists have created the world's first nanophotonic electron accelerator, which speeds negatively charged particles with mini laser pulses and is small enough to fit on a coin. When you ...

In their latest study, scientists propose a new method to enhance the quality of electron beams produced by laser-plasma accelerators. “Using a clever correction system, a research team was able ...

This miniaturized accelerator instead fires electrons down a straight line. Plenty of other linear electron accelerators have existed, including most famously the now-dismantled two-mile-long ...

"This is the first multi-GeV electron accelerator powered entirely by lasers," says Milchberg, who is also affiliated with the Institute of Research Electronics and Applied Physics at UMD.

Protons in the LHC reach energies of trillions of electron volts. The new tiny accelerators, with mere thousands of electron volts, won’t be creating Higgs bosons anytime soon — the particle ...

This device, called the nanophotonic electron accelerator (NEA), is a microchip containing a vacuum channel lined with thousands of tiny pillars. When laser beams strike these pillars, they ...

The most powerful laser in the U.S. just fired up to full strength for its first official experiment—and it’s an absolute ...

"We want to realize a laser-plasma accelerator that produces 1,000 high-quality electron bunches per second." ...

Accelerating electrons to high energies is normally done over long distances at large and expensive facilities. The electron accelerator at the heart of the European X-ray Free Electron Laser in ...

is equivalent to the work done on an electron accelerating through the potential of one volt.) To increase the energy of the proton beams to such an extreme level, "the thousands of ...

The device is small enough to fit on a coin. Scientists recently fired up the world's smallest particle accelerator for the first time. The tiny technological triumph, which is around the size of ...