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How does a particle accelerator work?

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

How does the Large Hadron Collider work?

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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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

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