Linear Accelerator
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Linear Accelerator
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Science Source
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Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory are investigating how lasers can be used to create plasma - neutral mixtures of positive ions and negative electrons - from different materials. They hope to use this plasma to create higher current particle beams. This efficient, simpler method of producing particle beams might be used for cancer therapy, to develop new energy sources, or in synchrotrons. A linear accelerator is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles, such as protons and electrons, in a straight line by means of alternating negative and positive impulses from electric fields. Linear accelerators were largely supplanted by cyclotrons and other architectures that require less path length to achieve the same or higher particle velocities.
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January 24th, 2017
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