<IMG SRC="navi.gif" WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=440 usemap="#navi" BORDER=0> How Do We Experiment With Tiny Particles? : How To Obtain Particles To Accelerate

Electrons: Heating a metal causes electrons to be ejected. A television, like cathode ray tubes, uses this mechanism.

Protons: They can easily be obtained by ionizing hydrogen.

Antiparticles: To get antiparticles, first have energetic particles hit a target. Then pairs of particles and antiparticles will be created via virtual photons or gluons. Magnetic fields can be used to separate them.