Linac 4 will replace an older accelerator as the first step in the complex that includes the LHC. At a ceremony today, CERN European research center inaugurated its newest accelerator. Linac 4 will ...

Canadian scientists are developing a new technology that integrates two existing medical devices -- medical linear accelerators, or "linacs," which produce powerful X-rays for treating cancer, and ...

Engineers who have toiled on the world’s most powerful X-ray laser for over a decade have finally achieved first light with the instrument, meaning that science with the newly energized machine is ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is where the miraculous meets the impractical. In addition to probing the secrets of the Universe at the subatomic level, it also has potential for a variety of ...

Take a walk along the hall that houses Fermilab's linear accelerator, and you'll see tall sets of brightly lit shelves that resemble fancy vending machines. But instead of snacks and beverages, they ...

Particle accelerators are among the most intricate scientific instruments ever devised. With millions of sensors and thousands of subsystems at risk of failure, these accelerators' human operators ...

CHICAGO, Nov. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Arizton's recent research report, Medical Linear Accelerators Market - Global Outlook and Forecast 2020-2025 is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 2 ...

After 50 years of operation, one-third of the lab's historic linac is extracted to build powerful new X-ray laser DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory For the first time in more than 50 years, a ...

When the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford first opened its doors in 1966, it had already earned the distinction of housing the world's longest linear accelerator: A 3.2 kilometer ...