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particle accelerators

  • schematic diagram of a linear proton resonance accelerator
    In particle accelerator: Colliding particles

    More common yet have been particle-antiparticle colliders. An antiparticle has opposite electric charge to its related particle. For example, an antielectron (or positron) has positive charge, while the electron has negative charge. This means that an electric field that accelerates an electron will decelerate a positron moving in the same…

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