Why Accelerate Particles?

6/12/01


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Why Accelerate Particles?

Two-Fold Nature of Particle Accelerators

Two-Fold Nature of Particle Accelerators Pair Production

Two-Fold Nature of Particle Accelerators

Natural Particle “Accelerators”

Natural Particle “Accelerators” Beta Decay

Natural Particle “Accelerators” Beta Spectrum

Natural Particle “Accelerators” Radioactive Decay Modes

Natural Particle “Accelerators”

Cosmic Rays

Natural Particle “Accelerators”

Electrostatic Accelerators

Electrostatic Accelerator Crookes’s Tube

Electrostatic Accelerators TV Accelerator

Electrostatic Accelerators: Cockcroft - Walton

Electrostatic Accelerators: Cockcroft - Walton

Cockroft-Walton

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Electrostatic Accelerators: Disadvantages

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RF Accelerating Cavities

RF Accelerating Wavefront

Klystron RF Generator

Klystron RF Generator

Circular Accelerators: The Synchrotron

Macro-view of Synchrotron

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Driver Motor

Helium Compressing Facilities

Liquid Helium Storage Tank

Micro-view of Synchrotron

Synchrotron Radiation

Fixed-Target Beams vs Colliders

Collider Detector at Fermilab

CDF

CDF

CDF and Assembly Area

Aleph Experiment Hall

Tunnel Near Aleph Experiment Hall

Atlas Construction Site

Atlas Construction Workers

Atlas Tunnel Excavation (looking down)

Atlas Utility Tunnel (looking down)

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Author: Barbara Smith

Email: ken.taylor@risd.org