When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some ... that can fit on a chip smaller than a penny. The device uses lasers and dielectrics instead of electric fields and metal.

Particle accelerators can be linear (straight) or circular in shape and have many different sizes. They can be tens of kilometres long or fit in a small room, but all accelerators feature four ...

An electrical device that generates charged particles ... is the world's largest particle accelerator. Online in 2008 and costing around $6 billion, protons are made to collide into other ...