What is "accelerators"

Usage examples of "accelerators".

Without accelerators capable of producing Planck-scale energies, we will increasingly have to rely on the cosmological accelerator of the big bang, and the relics it has left for us throughout the universe, for our experimental data.

As our most powerful particle accelerators can reach energies only on the order of a thousand times the proton mass, less than a millionth of a billionth of the Planck energy, we are very far from being able to search in the laboratory for any of these new particles predicted by string theory.

Particle accelerators are based on the same principle: They hurl bits of matter such as electrons and protons at each other as well as at other targets, and elaborate detectors analyze the resulting spray of debris to determine the architecture of the objects involved.

This is why particle accelerators use protons or electrons as probes, since their small size makes them much better suited to the task.

As even our state-of-the-art accelerators cannot quite reach such energies, this provides an explanation for why these particles have not, as yet, been discovered.

Physicists can probe down to a billionth of a billionth of a meter with accelerators that are roughly a few miles in size.

We could learn about fundamental physics in the Andromeda galaxy by going there, finding a planet around some star, building accelerators, and performing the kinds of experiments carried out on earth.

By doing a lot of math and watching carefully what goes on in particle accelerators, scientists believe they can look back to 10-43 seconds after the moment of creation, when the universe was still so small that you would have needed a microscope to find it.

The cost of large particle accelerators is so great that there can be only a few of them, and those who want to use them must rearrange their lives accordingly.

The progress of particle physics had been driven by a succession of ever more powerful accelerators beginning with E.