Particle accelerator

A particle accelerator is a device that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to high speeds to contain  them in well-defined beam. Large accelerators are best known  for their uses in particle physics as colliders. Other kinds of accelerators are used in large variety of applications.

Colliders

Is a type of particle accelerator. They are two types of colliders may either be circular
accelerator and linear accelerator.

Circular accelerator

It's a type of particle accelerators that goes around in circles.

Linear accelerator

It's a type of particle accelerators that greatly increases kinetic energy of charged subatomic particles or ions by subjecting the charged particles.

High-energy  physics

The largest accelerators with the highest particle energies are the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. These accelerators are used in particle physics as colliders.

Particle Physics

Is the branch of physics that studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter and radiation. The word particle can refer to various types of very small objects such as protons, electrons and neutron.

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Is one of only two operating heavy-ion colliders, and only the spin-polarized proton collider ever built.

Large Hadron Collider

Is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the largest and most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest simple machine in the world.

How does it work?

It uses electric fields to speed up and increases energy of the beam, which are steered and focused by the magnetic fields.

What does the particle accelerator do?

Is a machine that accelerates elementary particles, such as electrons or protons, to very high energies.

When was the first particle accelerator built?

It was built in late 1970's, was the first in a series of high-energy circular electron accelerators built for fundamental particle physics, the last  being LEP, built at CERN, which was use from 1989 until 2000.

How does the accelerator contributed to basic science?

It is essential tools to discovered nuclear and particle physics and for sciences that uses x-rays and neutrons, a type of neutral subatomic particle.

How does the accelerator improved consumer product?

Electron-beam applications center on the modification of material properties, such as the alteration of plastics, for surface treatment, and for pathogen destruction in medical sterilization and food irradiation. Ion-beam accelerators, which accelerate heavier particles, find extensive use in the semiconductor industry in chip manufacturing and in hardening the surfaces of materials such as those used in artificial joints.

The parts of the particle accelerator:

• Particle Source - It provides the particle, such as protons and electrons, that are to be accelerated.
• Electromagnets - It steer and focus the beam of the particles.
• Electric Fields - It spaced around the accelerator switch from positive and negative at a given frequency.
• Targets - It can directed at a fixed target, such as thin piece of metal foil.
• Detectors - It can record and reveal the particles and radiation that are produced by the collision.