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Muon production in particle accelerator
PAMELA is a particle accelerator which have two concentric rings, protons are accelerated in the inside ring.
At ISIS muons are produced when a 800 MeV proton beam collides with a graphite ...
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Question about linacs
Why are the electrodes of a linac connected to an alternating voltage? Within an electrode the electron moves with a constant speed, and once it is outside of the electrode it accelerates uniformly, ...
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A comprehensive reference for RF linear accelerator's operation
I'm doing a research on RF linear accelerators (RF Linac), but while studying the material I encountered many problems. I cannot understand the basics of the RF linear accelerators in many ways, for ...
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What is the total kinetic energy per second of the particles accelerated by the LHC
Related: how many protons per second can the LHC accelerate?
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What are the advantages of the ILC over the LHC?
USA Today has an article on Japan's interest as the site for the $10 billion future International Linear Collider. This accelerator will utilize electron/positron collisions (like CERN's former LEP ...
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Is accelerating particles through a chain of accelerators a continuous or batch process?
At the Advanced Photon Source, they use two accelerators before injecting the electrons into the large storage ring. Is the addition of particles to the storage ring done in "batches" (however ...
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If U238 ions were circulating in a particle accelerator would their neutron absorption cross section spectra change?
If U238 ions were circulating in a particle accelerator would their neutron absorption cross section spectra change?
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An Introduction to particle acceleration and particle accelerator
I am preparing to write my paper about particle acceleration recently, and i need some general knowledge to get my feet wet about it.
May you please give me an introduction of what particle ...
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Production of antiproton at the Tevatron
The Tevatron is a proton-antiproton collider; it collides a beam of protons against a beam of antiproton.
I can understand how we obtain the protons, but for the antiprotons ? How are they produced ?
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