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From Beams to Measurements☜Scientists from institutes all over the world form experimental collaborations to build large and complex experiments and analyse the myriad of particles produced by collisions in the accelerator. ☜FFB597
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Particle Accelerators
Particle Accelerators☜A machine used to provide energy to charged particles (electrons, protons, ions, etc.). Electric fields accelerate the particles while magnetic fields steer and focus them. The higher the targeted energies, the bigger the accelerator – its length can reach several kilometers, even tens of kilometers today.☜9FDDBE
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Collider
Collider☜Accelerator in which two counter-rotating beams are accelerated and forced to collide at the centre of detectors that was specifically designed for observing these events. Only a few particles collide; the rest continues its way to later collisions. One benefit of colliders is that the energy available during collisions corresponds to the sum of the beams energies. That information is used in data analysis to look for events where new particles would be created.☜5CA4D9
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Fixed Target
Fixed Target☜In an fixed target experiment, a beam of accelerated particles is projected on a fixed piece of matter, usually a metal plate. Collisions then occur between some particles and atoms of the target. While the beam-fixed target collisions are easier to produce than beam-beam collisions, there are two main drawbacks to the fixed target experiment: first, the particles can be used only once; second, only a small part of the energy provided by the beam is effectively used to create new particles. ☜5CA4D9
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Heavy Ion
Heavy Ion☜Ions are electrically charged chemical element, generally produced by the addition or removal of electrons from an atom or a neutral molecule. In particle physics, the term heavy ions is used to refer to atomic nuclei of heavy elements, such as lead, that are deprived of all their electrons and used a beams in colliders or for medical applications.☜5CA4D9
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LHC
LHC☜The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, started up at CERN in 2008 and will provide collisions until 2042. Proton beams are shaped and accelerated in a linear accelerator (Linac 4) and two synchrotrons (PS and SPS) before being injected into the LHC, a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way. ☜5CA4D9
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Linear Accelerator
Linear Accelerator☜A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to linac) accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high speed by subjecting them to a series of oscillating electric potentials along a linear beamline. Linacs have many applications: they generate X-rays and high energy electrons for medicinal purposes in radiation therapy, serve as particle injectors for higher-energy accelerators, and are used directly for particle physics. ☜5CA4D9
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Synchrotron
Synchrotron☜A particle accelerator in which a magnetic field bends the trajectories of the particles, and increases with their energy. This technique allows to keep beams on circular orbits through the whole acceleration process. ☜5CA4D9
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Acceleration Principles
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Beam
Beam☜In an accelerator, particles are gathered together in a beam. Beams can contain billions of particles and be divided into discrete portions called bunches. Each bunch is usually several centimetres long but just a few microns wide.☜00CFE4
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eV, GeV, TeV
eV, GeV, TeV☜One electron-Volt is the energy acquired by an electron accelerated by a 1 Volt electric tension.A Giga electron-Volt (GeV) equals a billion electron-Volts. A Tera electron-Volt (TeV) equals a thousand billion electron-Volts.Through Einsteins formula, GeV/c2 is a mass unit.☜00CFE4
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Luminosity
Luminosity☜The collision rate in a particle accelerator is measured by a quantity called luminosity: the higher the luminosity, the higher the collision rate. Particles travel through the accelerator as bunches. The greater the number of bunches, the greater the number of particles per bunch and the smaller the size of the bunches at the collision point, the higher the luminosity.☜00CFE4
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