Particle accelerator
device · 1932 · Electric age
Accelerates particles with electromagnetic fields (Lawrence’s cyclotron).
What it is made of
- Accelerator beam pipe — has part. The tube where the particles fly.
- Radio frequency cavities — has part. They accelerate particles with a field.
- Electromagnet — has part. Bending and focusing magnets.
- Particle detector — has part. They record the collisions.
Principles and materials it uses
- Electromagnet — uses. Bending magnets.
- Vacuum — uses. A vacuum chamber.
- Copper — is made of. Magnets and resonators are copper.
- Steel — is made of. The vacuum chamber is steel.
Where it is used
- Radiation therapy — is used in. Medical linear accelerators.
History: what it evolved from and what it influenced
- World Wide Web — inspired. The web was invented at CERN for sharing physicists’ data.
- Van de Graaff generator — evolved from. Early accelerators.
What it is a kind of
- Large Hadron Collider — includes. An accelerator.
- Medical linear accelerator — includes. An accelerator.
- Cyclotron — includes. An accelerator.