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How does a particle accelerator work?
What is a particle accelertor? What is an atom smasher?
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Particle accelerator and atom crasher is the same. Here particle refers to elementary particles, electron, proton, neutron, etc., which are there inside an atom. These particles are quantum particle. Some of them are charged particle. Some are neutral. They all responds to electro-magnetic (EM) field. If one applies EM field in a certain way and in a certain direction then the velocity of these particles increases. Based on this principle and following some theories scientists were able to accelerate these particle to a high level. The machine where particles are accelerated is call particle accelerator or cyclotron.
There are many applications of this. Nuclear fission where atoms are broken by high energy particles. Ion implantation where semiconductors are doped with impurities. And so on. For more details please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator
There are many applications of this. Nuclear fission where atoms are broken by high energy particles. Ion implantation where semiconductors are doped with impurities. And so on. For more details please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator
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