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Figure 9: The tunnel of the Main Accelerator at Fermilab. The upper ring of conventional magnets comprise the fourth stage of particle acceleration. The particle beam can then be injected into the Tev
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schematic diagram of a linear proton resonance accelerator
schematic diagram of a Van de Graaff high-voltage electrostatic generator
two-stage tandem particle accelerator
plan view of a classical cyclotron
acceleration chamber of a linear electron accelerator
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California
schematic diagram of a synchrotron with alternating-gradient focusing
Figure 9: The tunnel of the Main Accelerator at Fermilab. The upper ring of conventional magnets comprise the fourth stage of particle acceleration. The particle beam can then be injected into the Tev
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How does the Large Hadron Collider work?
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