Tag: particle accelerators

• The week in review (August 25-31)

  Welcome to the weekly round-up of stories I wrote this week, wherever they hide. A tour of physics, Angry Birds style (Double X Science): The odds are good that you’ve played Angry Birds, even if (like me) you don’t own a device that will run the game. My colleague Rhett Allain wrote a book for…

  Matthew R. Francis

  August 31, 2013

  Ars Technica, Double X Science, Galileo’s Pendulum, Writing for Other Sites

  Back Roads Dark Skies, books, lightning, Milky Way, particle accelerators, particle physics, supermassive black holes

• Accelerating neutral particles on a lab bench

  Most accelerators, including the big ones at CERN and RHIC, use charged particles: protons, electrons, or ions (atoms with electrons removed to make them positively charged). That’s because it’s easy to accelerate that kind of particle using electric and magnetic fields. However, neutral particles like neutrons or normal atoms can’t be accelerated by those fields,…

  Matthew R. Francis

  January 29, 2013

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  lasers, particle accelerators, plasma physics