You can learn about the components in even more detail here. Then there’s CERN’s animation, which focuses on their newest linear accelerator: Linac4. It’s scheduled to be connected to the next ...

The same principle applies to the action of electric fields on charged particles. After learning of the possibility and value of applying alternating-gradient focusing to proton linear accelerators, ...

Extraction of ultra-low emittance bunches is an issue to be addressed for future applications of plasma wakefield accelerators. Here, the authors show that the field structure of the plasma could ...

Actinium-225 holds huge promise as a cancer treatment but barely exists in nature. The Lansing company Niowave has begun producing it with a superconducting linear accelerator.

After nearly a decade in development, the second iteration of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the DoE's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is nearly ready to start throwing ...

A new state-of-the-art cancer treatment device that uses precise radiation technology has been installed at Bronson Cancer Center in Battle Creek thanks to the largest gift ever to Bronson Battle ...