how do particle accelerators work and why are they important?
In: Physics
“particle accelerators” is a huge class of devices. it is about as vague as saying “floating object”
All of them have 1 thing in common, they accelerate particles, in general using powerful electromagnets. other than that, nothing links them.
they can be small like a crt tube in a tv, or kilometers across like the LHC.
their purpose can range from displaying an image (crt tv), workong as a microscope (sem), discovering/creating new elements, descovering subsubatomic particles (lhc), electroplating things, making mems devices, etc. a huge range of uses and designs.
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