A computer-generated image based on a generative diffusion process shows 2D projections of a particle accelerator beam. Starting from pure noise, signals from the accelerator adaptively guide the ...

Physicists have spent decades building colossal machines to hurl subatomic particles to near light speed, but the newest frontier in accelerator technology is smaller than a fingernail. By etching ...

Particle therapy experts gathered in London to discuss the transformative potential of laser-driven proton and ion beams ...

Twenty-five feet below ground, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientist Spencer Gessner opens a large metal picnic basket. This is not your typical picnic basket filled with cheese, bread and ...

Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator? Inside an ordinary-looking cupboard in an ordinary-looking office, ...

For 30 years, physicists around the world have been trying to reconstruct how life-giving particles formed in the very early universe. ALICE is their mightiest effort yet. By Rahul Rao Published Aug ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator located beneath the Franco-Swiss border, celebrates ...

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Materials scientist Shiva Shirani measures how cement hardens at the nanoscale to inform how to develop a more eco-friendly material. “When I was a master’s student at Amirkabir University of ...