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[[Image:2mv accelerator-MJC01.jpg|thumb|300px|A 1960s single stage 2 MeV linear Van de Graaff accelerator, here opened for maintenance]]

A '''particle accelerator''' (or '''atom smasher'''<ref>[http://science.howstuffworks.com/atom-smasher.htm| how stuff works - atom smasher]</ref>) is a device that uses [[electric field]]s to propel [[electric charge|electrically-charged]] [[Elementary particle|particle]]s to high speeds and to contain them. An ordinary [[Cathode ray tube|CRT]] television set is a simple form of accelerator. There are two basic types: linear accelerators and circular accelerators. 

This page describes types of particle accelerators. For a list of existing and historic particle accelerators see:
''[[List of accelerators in particle physics]]''.

==Uses of particle accelerators==
Beams of high-energy particles are useful for both fundamental and applied research in the sciences.
For the most basic inquiries into the dynamics and structure of matter, space, and time, physicists seek the simplest kinds of interactions at the highest possible energies.  
These typically entail particle energies of many [[GeV]] or more, and the interactions of the simplest kinds of particles: [[lepton]]s (e.g. electrons and [[positron]]s) and [[quark]]s for the matter, or [[photon]]s and [[gluon]]s for the [[quantum field theory|field quanta]].
Since isolated quarks are experimentally unavailable due to [[color confinement]], the simplest available experiments involve the interactions of, first, leptons with each other, and second, of leptons with [[nucleon]]s, which are composed of quarks and gluons.
To study the collisions of quarks with each other, we resort to collisions of nucleons, which at high energy may be usefully considered as [[Parton (particle physics)|essentially 2-body interactions]] of the quarks and gluons of which they are composed.
Thus elementary particle physicists tend to use machines creating beams of electrons, positrons, protons, and [[anti-proton]]s, interacting with each other or with the simplest nuclei (eg, hydrogen or [[deuterium]]) at the highest possible energies, generally hundreds of GeV or more.

At a higher level of complexity, [[nuclear physicist]]s and [[cosmologist]]s may use beams of bare [[atomic nucleus|atomic nuclei]], stripped of electrons, to investigate the structure, interactions, and properties of the nuclei themselves, and of [[condensed matter]] at extremely high temperatures and densities, such as might have occurred in the first moments of the [[Big Bang]].  
These investigations often involve collisions of heavy nuclei--of atoms like iron or gold--at energies of several GeV per [[nucleon]]. 
At lower energies, beams of accelerated nuclei are also used in medicine, as  for the treatment of cancer.

Besides being of fundamental interest, high energy electrons may be coaxed into emitting extremely bright and coherent beams of high energy photons--ultraviolet and X ray--via [[synchrotron radiation]], which photons have numerous uses in the study of atomic structure, chemistry, condensed matter physics, biology, and technology. Examples include the [[ESRF]] in Europe, which has recently been used to extract detailed three - dimensional images of insects trapped in amber <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7324564.stm BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Secret 'dino bugs' revealed<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Thus there is a great demand for electron accelerators of moderate (GeV) energy and high intensity.

===High-energy machines===
[[Image:Particle accelerator DSC09089.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Beam lines leading from the Van de Graaf accelerator to various experiments, in the basement of the [[Jussieu Campus]] in [[Paris]]]]
Linear high-energy accelerators use a linear array of plates (or drift tubes) to which an alternating high-energy field is applied. As the particles approach a plate they are accelerated towards it by an opposite polarity charge applied to the plate. As they pass through a hole in the plate, the polarity is switched so that the plate now repels them and they are now accelerated by it towards the next plate. Normally a stream of "bunches" of particles are accelerated, so a carefully controlled AC voltage is applied to each plate to continuously repeat this process for each bunch.

[[Image:Particle accelerators 1937.jpg|thumb|200px|In early particle accelerators a [[Cockcroft-Walton generator|Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier]] was responsible for voltage multiplying. This piece of the accelerator helped in the development of the [[Nuclear weapon|atomic bomb]].  Built in 1937 by [[Philips]] of [[Eindhoven]] it currently resides in the [[Science Museum (London)|National Science Museum]] in [[London]], [[England]]. ]]

As the particles approach the speed of light the switching rate of the electric fields becomes so high that they operate at microwave frequencies, and so [[Cavity resonator|RF cavity resonators]] are used in higher energy machines instead of simple plates.

DC accelerator types capable of accelerating particles to speeds sufficient to cause nuclear reactions are [[Cockcroft-Walton generator]]s or [[voltage multiplier]]s, which convert AC to high voltage DC, or [[Van de Graaff generator]]s that use static electricity carried by belts.

The largest and most powerful particle accelerators, such as the [[RHIC]], the [[Large Hadron Collider|LHC]] (scheduled to start operation in 2008) and the [[Tevatron]], are used for [[experiment]]al [[particle physics]].
Particle accelerators can also produce proton beams, which can produce "proton-heavy" medical or research [[isotope]]s as opposed to the "neutron-heavy" ones made in fission reactors. An example of this type of machine is LANSCE at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]].

===Low-energy machines===
Everyday examples of particle accelerators are those found in television sets and [[X-ray]] generators. Low-energy accelerators such as [[cathode ray tube]]s and [[X-ray]] generators use a single pair of [[electrode]]s with a [[direct current|DC]] voltage of a few thousand volts between them. In an X-ray generator, the target itself is one of the electrodes. 
A low-energy particle accelerator called an [[ion implanter]] is used in the manufacture of [[integrated circuit]]s.

== Linear particle accelerators ==
:''Main article: [[Linear particle accelerator]]''

In a linear accelerator (linac), particles are accelerated in a straight line with a target of interest at one end. Linacs are very widely used - every [[cathode ray tube]] contains one. They are also used to provide an initial low-energy kick to particles before they are injected into circular accelerators. The longest linac in the world is the [[Stanford Linear Accelerator Center|Stanford Linear Accelerator]], SLAC, which is 3 km (2 miles) long. SLAC is an electron-[[positron]] collider.
[[Image:Weizmann Institute particle accelerator.jpg|thumb|The now disused Koffler particle accelerator at the [[Weitzmann Institute]], one of Israel's most accomplished institutions of higher learning in the sciences.]]

Linear accelerators are also widely used in medicine, for [[radiotherapy]] and [[radiosurgery]]. Medical grade LINACs accelerate electrons using a [[klystron]] and a complex bending magnet arrangement which produces a beam of 6-30 million electron-volt ([[MeV]]) energy. The electrons can be used directly or they can be collided with a target to produce a beam of [[X-rays]]. The reliability, flexibility and accuracy of the radiation beam produced has largely supplanted the older use of [[Cobalt-60]] therapy as a treatment tool.

=== Tandem electrostatic accelerators ===
In a tandem accelerator, the negatively charged ion gains energy by attraction to the very high positive voltage at the geometric centre of the pressure vessel. When it arrives at the centre region known as the high voltage terminal, some electrons are stripped from the ion.  The ion then becomes positive and accelerated away by the high positive voltage. Thus, this type of accelerator is called a 'tandem' accelerator.  The accelerator has two stages of acceleration, first pulling and then pushing the charged particles. An example of a tandem accelerator is [[ANTARES (accelerator)|ANTARES]] (Australian National Tandem Accelerator for Applied Research).

==Circular or cyclic accelerators==
In the circular accelerator, particles move in a circle until they reach sufficient energy. The particle track is typically bent into a circle using [[electromagnet]]s. The advantage of circular accelerators over linear accelerators (''linacs'') is that the ring topology allows continuous acceleration, as the particle can transit indefinitely. Another advantage is that a circular accelerator is relatively smaller than a linear accelerator of comparable power (i.e. a linac would have to be extremely long to have the equivalent power of a circular accelerator).

Depending on the energy and the particle being accelerated, circular accelerators suffer a disadvantage in that the particles emit [[synchrotron radiation]]. When any charged particle is accelerated, it emits [[electromagnetic radiation]] and [[secondary emission]]s. As a particle traveling in a circle is always accelerating towards the center of the circle, it continuously radiates towards the tangent of the circle. This radiation is called [[synchrotron light]] and depends highly on the mass of the accelerating particle. For this reason, many high energy electron accelerators are linacs. Certain accelerators ([[synchrotron]]s) are however built specially for producing synchrotron light ([[X-ray]]s).

Since the [[special theory of relativity]] requires that matter always travels slower than the speed of light in a [[vacuum]], in high-energy accelerators, as the energy increases the particle speed approaches the speed of light as a limit, never quite attained. Therefore particle physicists do not generally think in terms of speed, but rather in terms of a particle's [[energy]] or [[momentum]], usually measured in [[electron volt]]s (eV).
An important principle for circular accelerators, and [[particle beam]]s in general, is that the [[curvature]] of the particle trajectory is proportional to the particle charge and to the magnetic field, but inversely proportional to the (typically [[special relativity|relativistic]]) [[momentum]].

===Cyclotrons===
The earliest circular accelerators were [[cyclotron]]s, invented in 1929 by [[Ernest O. Lawrence]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. Cyclotrons have a single pair of hollow 'D'-shaped plates to accelerate the particles and a single large [[dipole magnet]] to bend their path into a circular orbit. 
It is a characteristic property of charged particles in a uniform and constant magnetic field B that they orbit with a constant period, at a frequency called the [[cyclotron frequency]], so long as their speed is small compared to the speed of light c.
This means that the accelerating D's of a cyclotron can be driven at a constant frequency by a radio frequency (RF) accelerating power source, as the beam spirals outwards continuously. 
The particles are injected in the centre of the magnet and are extracted at the outer edge at their maximum energy.  

Cyclotrons reach an energy limit because of  [[relativistic mass|relativistic effects]] whereby the particles effectively become more massive, so that their cyclotron frequency drops out of synch with the accelerating RF. 
Therefore simple cyclotrons can accelerate protons only to an energy of around 15 million electron volts (15 MeV, corresponding to a speed of roughly 10% of c), because the protons get out of phase with the driving electric field. 
If accelerated further, the beam would continue to spiral outward to a larger radius but the particles would no longer gain enough speed to complete the larger circle in step with the accelerating RF. 
Cyclotrons are nevertheless still useful for lower energy applications. 

===Synchrocyclotrons and isochronous cyclotrons===
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There are ways of modifying the classic cyclotron to increase the energy limit.
This may be done in a continuous beam, constant frequency, machine by shaping the magnet poles so to increase magnetic field with radius. 
Then higher energy particles travel a shorter distance in each orbit than they otherwise would, and can remain in phase with the accelerating field.
Such machines are called isochronous cyclotrons.  Their advantage is that they can deliver continuous beams of higher average intensity, which is useful for some applications.
The main disadvantages are the size and cost of the large magnet needed, and the difficulty in achieving the higher field required at the outer edge.

Another possibility, the synchrocyclotron, accelerates the particles in bunches, in a constant B field, but reduces the RF accelerating field's frequency so as to keep the particles in step as they spiral outward.  This approach suffers from low average beam intensity due to the bunching, and again from the need for a huge magnet of large radius and constant field over the larger orbit demanded by high energy.

[[Image:Orsay proton therapy dsc04444.jpg|thumb|A magnet in the synchrocyclotron at the [[Orsay]] [[proton therapy]] center]]

===Betatrons===
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Another type of circular accelerator, invented in 1940 for accelerating [[electron]]s, is the [[Betatron]].
These machines, like synchrotrons, use a donut-shaped ring magnet (see below) with a cyclically increasing B field, but accelerate the particles by induction from the increasing magnetic field, as if they were the secondary winding in a transformer,
due to the changing magnetic flux through the orbit.
Achieving constant orbital radius while supplying the proper accelerating electric field requires that the magnetic flux linking the orbit be somewhat independent of the magnetic field on the orbit, bending the particles into a constant radius curve.
These machines have in practice been limited by the large radiative losses suffered by the electrons moving at nearly the speed of light in a relatively small radius orbit.

===Synchrotrons===
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To reach still higher energies, with relativistic mass approaching or exceeding the rest mass of the particles (for protons, billions of electron volts [[GeV]]), it is necessary to use a [[synchrotron]]. This is an accelerator in which the particles are accelerated in a ring of constant radius.
An immediate advantage over cyclotrons is that the magnetic field need only be present over the actual region of the particle orbits, which is very much narrower than the diameter of the ring.  
(The largest cyclotron built in the US had a 184 in dia magnet pole, whereas the diameter of the [[LEP]] and [[Large Hadron Collider|LHC]] is nearly 10 km.  The aperture of the beam of the latter was of the order of centimeters.) 

However, since the particle momentum increases during acceleration, it is necessary to turn up the magnetic field B in proportion to maintain constant curvature of the orbit.
In consequence synchrotrons cannot accelerate particles continuously, as cyclotrons can, but must operate cyclically, supplying particles in bunches, which are delivered to a target or an external beam in beam "spills" typically every few seconds.
Note that since high energy synchrotrons do most of their work on particles that are already traveling at nearly the speed of light c, the time to complete one orbit of the ring is nearly constant, as is the frequency of the RF power needed to drive the acceleration.

Note also a further point about modern synchrotrons: because the beam aperture is small and the magnetic field does not cover the entire area of the particle orbit as it does for a cyclotron, several necessary functions can be separated.  
Instead of one huge magnet, one has a line of hundreds of bending magnets, enclosing (or enclosed by) vacuum connecting pipes.  
The focusing of the beam is handled independently by specialized [[quadrupole magnets]], while the acceleration itself is accomplished in separate RF sections, rather similar to short linear accelerators.
Also, there is no necessity that cyclic machines be circular, but rather the beam pipe may have straight sections between magnets where beams may collide. be cooled, etc.

[[Image:Fermilab.jpg|thumb|Aerial photo of the [[Tevatron]] at [[Fermilab]].  The main accelerator is the ring above; the one below (about one-third the diameter, despite appearances) is for preliminary acceleration, beam cooling and storage, etc.]]
More complex modern synchrotrons such as the [[Tevatron]], [[LEP]], and [[Large Hadron Collider|LHC]] (still under construction) may deliver the particle bunches into [[storage ring]]s of magnets with constant B, where they can continue to orbit for long periods for experimentation or further acceleration.
The highest-energy machines such as the Tevatron and LHC are actually accelerator complexes, with a cascade of specialized elements in series, including linear accelerators for initial beam creation, one or more low energy synchrotrons to reach intermediate energy, storage rings where beams can be accumulated or "cooled" (reducing the magnet aperture required and permitting tighter focusing; see [[stochastic cooling|beam cooling]]), and a last large ring for final acceleration and experimentation.

====Electron synchrotrons====
[[Image:DESY1.jpg|thumb|Segment of an electron synchrotron at [[DESY]]]]
Circular electron accelerators fell somewhat out of favor for particle physics around the time that [[SLAC]] was constructed, because their synchrotron losses were considered economically prohibitive and because their beam intensity was lower than for the unpulsed linear machines.
The Cornell Electron Synchrotron, built at low cost in the late 1960s, was the first in a series of high-energy circular electron accelerators built for fundamental particle physics, culminating in the [[LEP]] at CERN.

A large number of electron synchrotrons have been built in the past two decades, specialized to be synchrotron light sources, of ultraviolet light and X rays; see below.

===Storage rings===
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For some applications, it is useful to store beams of high energy particles for some time (with modern high [[vacuum]] technology, up to many hours) without further acceleration.
This is especially true for [[collider|colliding beam accelerators]], in which two beams moving in opposite directions are made to collide with each other, with a large gain in effective collision energy.
Because relatively few collisions occur at each pass through the intersection point of the two beams, it is customary to first accelerate the beams to the desired energy, and then store them in storage rings, which are essentially synchrotron rings of magnets, with no significant RF power for acceleration.

===Synchrotron radiation sources===
Some circular accelerators have been built to deliberately generate radiation (called [[synchrotron light]]) as [[X-rays]] also called synchrotron radiation, for example the [[Diamond Light Source]] being built at the [[Rutherford Appleton Laboratory]] in [[England]] or the [[Advanced Photon Source]] at [[Argonne National Laboratory]] in [[Illinois]], USA. High-energy X-rays are useful for [[X-ray spectroscopy]] of [[protein]]s or [[X-ray absorption fine structure]] (XAFS) for example.

Synchrotron radiation is more powerfully emitted by lighter particles, so these accelerators are invariably [[electron]] accelerators. Synchrotron radiation allows for better imaging as researched and developed at [[Stanford Linear Accelerator Center|SLAC's SPEAR]].

===History===
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Lawrence's first cyclotron was a mere 4 inches (100 mm) in diameter. 
Later he built a machine with a 60 in dia pole face, and planned one with a
[[List of accelerators in particle physics|184-inch]] dia, which was, however, taken over for [[WWII]]-related work connected with uranium [[isotope separation]]; after the war it continued in service for research and medicine over many years.

The first large proton synchrotron was the [[Cosmotron]] at [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]], which accelerated protons to about 3 GeV.
The [[Bevatron]] at Berkeley, completed in 1954, was specifically designed to accelerate protons to sufficient energy to create anti-protons, and verify the [[antimatter|particle-antiparticle symmetry]] of nature, then only strongly suspected.
The [[Alternating Gradient Synchrotron]] (AGS) at Brookhaven was the first large synchrotron with alternating gradient, "[[strong focusing]]" magnets, which greatly reduced the required aperture of the beam, and correspondingly the size and cost of the bending magnets.
The [[Proton Synchrotron]], built at [[CERN]], was the first major European particle accelerator and generally similar to the AGS.

The [[Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory|Fermilab]] [[Tevatron]] has a ring with a beam path of 4 miles (6 km). 
The largest circular accelerator ever built was the [[Large Electron Positron|LEP]] [[synchrotron]] at CERN with a circumference 26.6 kilometers, which was an electron/[[positron]] collider. It has been dismantled and the underground tunnel is being reused for a proton/antiproton collider called the [[Large Hadron Collider|LHC]], due to start operation in at the end of July 2008.   
The aborted [[Superconducting Supercollider]] (SSC) in [[Texas]] would have had a circumference of 87 km. 
Construction was started in [[1991]], but abandoned in [[1993]]. 
Very large circular accelerators are invariably built in underground tunnels a few metres wide to minimize the disruption and cost of building such a structure on the surface, and to provide shielding against intense secondary radiations that may occur. 
These are extremely penetrating at high energies.

Current accelerators such as the [[Spallation Neutron Source]], incorporate superconducting [[cryomodule]]s. The [[Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider]], and upcoming [[Large Hadron Collider]] also make use of [[superconductivity|superconducting]] magnets and [[Cavity resonator|RF cavity resonators]] to accelerate particles.

== Targets and detectors==
The output of a particle accelerator can generally be directed towards multiple lines of experiments, one at a given time, by means of a deviating [[electromagnet]]. This makes it possible to operate multiple experiments without needing to move things around or shutting down the entire accelerator beam.  Except for synchrotron radiation sources, the purpose of an accelerator is to generate high-energy particles for interaction with matter. 

This is usually a fixed target, such as the [[phosphor]] coating on the back of the screen in the case of a television tube; a piece of [[uranium]] in an accelerator designed as a neutron source; or a tungsten target for an X-ray generator. In a linac, the target is simply fitted to the end of the accelerator. The particle track in a cyclotron is a spiral outwards from the centre of the circular machine, so the accelerated particles emerge from a fixed point as for a linear accelerator.

For synchrotrons, the situation is more complex. Particles are accelerated to the desired energy. Then, a fast acting dipole magnet is used to switch the particles out of the circular synchrotron tube and towards the target.

A variation commonly used for [[particle physics]] research is a [[collider]], also called a ''storage ring collider''. Two circular synchrotrons are built in close proximity - usually on top of each other and using the same magnets (which are then of more complicated design to accommodate both beam tubes). Bunches of particles travel in opposite directions around the two accelerators and collide at intersections between them. This can increase the energy enormously; whereas in a fixed-target experiment the energy available to produce new particles is proportional to the square root of the beam energy, in a collider the available energy is linear.

== Higher energies ==
At present the highest energy accelerators are all circular colliders, but it is likely that limits have been reached in respect of compensating for synchrotron radiation losses for electron accelerators, and the next generation will probably be linear accelerators 10 times the current length. An example of such a next generation electron accelerator is the 40 km long [[International Linear Collider]], due to be constructed between 2015-2020.

As of 2005, it is believed that [[plasma acceleration|plasma wakefield acceleration]] in the form of electron-beam 'afterburners' and standalone laser pulsers will provide dramatic increases in efficiency within two to three decades. In plasma wakefield accelerators, the beam cavity is filled with a plasma (rather than vacuum). A short pulse of electrons or laser light either constitutes or immediately trails the particles that are being accelerated. The pulse disrupts the plasma, causing the charged particles in the plasma to integrate into and move toward the rear of the bunch of particles that are being accelerated. This process transfers energy to the particle bunch, accelerating it further, and continues as long as the pulse is coherent.<ref>Matthew Early Wright (April 2005). "[http://www.symmetrymag.org/cms/?pid=1000091 Riding the Plasma Wave of the Future]". ''Symmetry: Dimensions of Particle Physics (Fermilab/SLAC)'', p. 12.</ref>

Energy gradients as steep as 200 GeV/m have been achieved over millimeter-scale distances using laser pulsers<ref>Briezman, et al. "[http://peaches.ph.utexas.edu/ifs/ifsreports/Self-focused762.pdf Self-Focused Particle Beam Drivers for Plasma Wakefield Accelerators]." (PDF) Retrieved [[13 May]] [[2005]].</ref> and gradients approaching 1 GeV/m are being produced on the multi-centimeter-scale with electron-beam systems, in contrast to a limit of about 0.1 GeV/m for radio-frequency acceleration alone. Existing electron accelerators such as [[SLAC]] could use electron-beam afterburners to greatly increase the energy of their particle beams, at the cost of beam intensity. Electron systems in general can provide tightly collimated, reliable beams; laser systems may offer more power and compactness. Thus, plasma wakefield accelerators could be used &mdash; if technical issues can be resolved &mdash; to both increase the maximum energy of the largest accelerators and to bring high energies into university laboratories and medical centres. 

=== Black hole production ===
In the future, the possibility of [[black hole]] (BH) production at the highest energy accelerators may arise, if certain predictions of [[superstring theory]] are accurate.<ref>An Interview with Dr. Steve Giddings http://www.esi-topics.com/blackholes/interviews/SteveGiddings.html</ref><ref>Phys. Rev. D 66, 091901 (2002)  http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v66/i9/e091901</ref>  These concerns have been particularly acute recently in connection with the LHC, which will begin operation in 2008. If they are produced, it is thought that black holes would evaporate extremely quickly via [[Bekenstein-Hawking radiation]]. However, the existence of the Bekenstein-Hawking radiation is controversial.<ref>Adam D. Helfer (2003). "[http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0304042 "Do black holes radiate?]" ''Rept. Prog. Phys.'' '''66''': 943.</ref> It is also thought that an analogy between colliders and cosmic rays demonstrates collider safety. If colliders can produce black holes, [[cosmic ray]]s (and particularly [[ultra-high-energy cosmic ray]]s, UHECRs) should have been producing them for eons, and they have yet to harm us.<ref name="jaffe">[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9910333 R. Jaffe ''et al.'', Rev. Mod. Phys. '''72''', 1125&ndash;1140 (2000).]</ref> However, to conserve energy and momentum, any BHs created in a collision between an UHECR and local matter would itself necessarily be produced moving at relativistic speed with respect to the Earth, and should therefore immediately escape into space, as its accretion and growth rate should be very slow.  BHs produced in colliders (with components of equal mass) would have some chance of having a velocity less than Earth escape velocity, 11.2 km per sec, and would be liable to capture and subsequent growth.  The time scale for them to grow enough to be dangerous is likely to be very long (millions of years), but somewhat controversial.

==See also==
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* [[Accelerator physics]]
* [[Anatoli Bugorski]]
* [[Astrophysics]]
* [[Beam dump]]
* [[Beam line]]
* [[Betatron]]
* [[Channelling (physics)|Channelling]]
* [[Cryomodule]]
* [[Cyclotron]]
* [[Dipole magnet]]
* [[Electromagnetism]]
* [[Electron cooling]]
* [[Ion implanter]]
* [[Large Hadron Collider]]
* [[Linear particle accelerator]]
* [[List of particles]]
* [[Particle beam]]
* [[Particle detector]]
* [[Particle physics]]
* [[Quadrupole magnet]]
* [[Stochastic cooling]]
* [[Superconducting Radio Frequency]]
* [[Superconducting Super Collider]]
* [[Synchrotron]]
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==External links==
* [http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/accelerator.html What are particle accelerators used for?]
* Stanley Humphries (1999) [http://www.fieldp.com/cpa/cpa.html Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration]
* [http://www-elsa.physik.uni-bonn.de/accelerator_list.html Particle Accelerators around the world]
* Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky: [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/beamline/27/1/27-1-panofsky.pdf The Evolution of Particle Accelerators & Colliders], ([[PDF]]), Stanford, 1997
* P.J. Bryant, [http://documents.cern.ch/archive/cernrep/1994/94-01/p1.pdf A Brief History and Review of Accelerators] (PDF), [[CERN]], 1994.
* {{cite book 
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  | first = J.L.
  | authorlink = J.L. Heilbron
  | coauthors = Robert W. Seidel
  | title = ''Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory''
  | publisher = [[University of California Press]]
  | date = 1989
  | location = Berkeley
  | url = http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5s200764/
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* David Kestenbaum, [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9433495 Massive Particle Accelerator Revving Up] NPR's Morning Edition article on April 9, 2007

* Hellborg, Ragnar, ed. ''Electrostatic Accelerators:  Fundamentals and Applications'' [N.Y., N.Y.:  Springer, 2005].   [http://books.google.com/books?id=tc6CEuIV1jEC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=electrostatic+accelerator+book&source=web&ots=Qa0DbmiZJt&sig=bLoYaz_VUpBr7-Wv4lk_fLBnUo4#PPP1,M1]

===Tandem accelerators===
 
* [http://old-www.ansto.gov.au/natfac/antares.html ANTARES Tandem Accelerator]
* [http://www2.tandar.cnea.gov.ar TANDAR Tandem Accelerator (Argentina)]
* [http://www.phy.ornl.gov/hribf/accelerator/tandemweb/ The Tandem Electrostatic Accelerator at ORNL]

===Amateur construction===

* [http://www.niell.org/research.html Fred's World of Science]
* [http://www.rtftechnologies.org/physics/linac.htm RTFTechnologies.org Electrostatic Particle Accelerator]
* [http://thecyclotronkids.com A group of high school students building their own particle accelerator]

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