A new analysis reveals what happens when very short or narrow electron beams encounter a particle. The research is published ...

In collaborative international effort, laser physicists at LMU have built the first hybrid plasma accelerator. Particle accelerators have made crucial contributions to some of the most spectacular ...

Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each travel together at nearly the speed of light through metal piping. These electron ...

Members of the research team at the heavy ion gantry of the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre. Left to right: Simon Jolly, Joao Seco, Laurent Kelleter, Lennart Volz and Raffaella Radogna. (Courtesy: ...

One of the discoveries that fundamentally distinguished the emerging field of quantum physics from classical physics was the observation that matter behaves differently at the smallest scales. A key ...