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In 1993 Congress canceled the U.S. Department of Energy’s Superconducting Super Collider, an underground particle accelerator, citing concerns about rising costs and fiscal mismanagement.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
This backstory is intermingled with events in the present day, in which prominent scientists are murdered or dying by suicide around the world, as experiments in particle accelerators produce impossible results.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
The powerful compact particle accelerators that could result from this advance might find applications such as cancer therapies and 3D imaging of new 3D chip designs, the scientists add.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Jan. 2024
The disaster is for a sociologist what a particle accelerator is for a physicist.
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
For instance, one of the largest energy hogs of any particle accelerator is its RF system, necessary for actually accelerating particles.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
The Tri-Lab Effort has worked on the specific infrastructure and techniques to do so, using existing particle accelerators to create the shooting proton beams.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
The sun is a particle accelerator, a ball of plasma, a self-sustaining thermonuclear reactor, a gale of mass and energy, the source of all life.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
Until recently, there were only two operational U.S. particle accelerators capable of electron beams with energies of 10 billion electron-volts or more, machines that are both roughly 3 kilometers long.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Jan. 2024
Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
This backstory is intermingled with events in the present day, in which prominent scientists are murdered or dying by suicide around the world, as experiments in particle accelerators produce impossible results.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
The powerful compact particle accelerators that could result from this advance might find applications such as cancer therapies and 3D imaging of new 3D chip designs, the scientists add.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Jan. 2024
The disaster is for a sociologist what a particle accelerator is for a physicist.
—Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
For instance, one of the largest energy hogs of any particle accelerator is its RF system, necessary for actually accelerating particles.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
The Tri-Lab Effort has worked on the specific infrastructure and techniques to do so, using existing particle accelerators to create the shooting proton beams.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
The sun is a particle accelerator, a ball of plasma, a self-sustaining thermonuclear reactor, a gale of mass and energy, the source of all life.
—Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
Until recently, there were only two operational U.S. particle accelerators capable of electron beams with energies of 10 billion electron-volts or more, machines that are both roughly 3 kilometers long.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Jan. 2024
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