A diagram of the BEAR project payload system, part of the first particle accelerator launched into space. Asimov wasn't alone in suggesting we develop an extraterrestrial particle accelerator.

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have developed a nanostructured silica-based “particle accelerator on a chip” which ...

Plasma wakefield accelerator diagram Image credit> For now, SLAC's plasma wakefield accelerator is fairly useless as far as actual particle physics research goes -- rather, it's just just one of a ...

Laser-based approaches promise a low-cost, compact and simple alternative, compared with conventional accelerators. Particle accelerators are used extensively in many branches of the natural sciences.

The new plasma wakefield accelerator, constructed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, is just 12 inches long -- or about 90,000 times smaller than CERN's 17-mile-long Large ...