1. MAIN
2. WHAT IS A PARTICLE ACCELERATOR?
3. HOW DOES IT WORK?
4. APPLICATIONS
5. FUTURE
6. REFERENCES
A short introduction to particle accelerators -
What are they? How do they work? What point is there in using them to destructively smash atoms together at dangerously high speeds?
Created by Christine Lee for Professor Deardorff's PHYS25 class at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Spring 2006
Computer-generated background image of atoms smashing by Lane Last.
View from inside a particle accelerator, from NASAexplores.