Scientists help develop model for future accelerators
Working with an international team, three physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have helped to demonstrate the feasibility of a new kind of particle accelerator that may be used in future physics research, medical applications, and power-generating reactors. The team reports the first successful acceleration of particles in a small-scale model of the accelerator in a paper published online in Nature Physics.
The device, named EMMA and constructed at the Daresbury Laboratory in the U.K., is the first non-scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator, or non-scaling FFAG, ever built. It combines features of several other accelerator types to achieve rapid acceleration of subatomic particles while keeping the scale—and therefore, the cost—of the accelerator relatively low.
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