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 ...

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 ...

In short, the combination of tiny nozzles and powerful lasers may make it possible to build tabletop accelerators that do ...

An electron beam moves through the channel ... We’ve seen laser-based accelerators before. If you want a history of particle accelerators, we can help you there, too.

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 ...

Scanning electron micrograph of a half-millimeter long dielectric laser accelerator through which electrons travel and accelerate. Cells labeled as black are longitudinally focusing and ...

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 ...

Proton beams with giga-electron-volt (GeV) energies—once thought to be achievable only with massive particle accelerators—may ...

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

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 ...