Well, it is a million times smaller and a million times weaker. It accelerates from 28 to 40keV. So it a) already needs a pre-accelerator as input, and b) just adds about 35% to it.
Your run-of-the-mill CRT back in the times was an eccelerator, too, with something like 10keV, btw.
GhostsAreShitty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s interesting that people only really became aware of particle accelerators in the LHC sense. CRT televisions are also particle accelerators. It’s nothing too super new.
Entropywins@kbin.social 1 year ago
Around 1930 they had a particular accelarator at Berkeley called the Cyclotron...they had the coolest names back then
elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Large Hadron Collider is also a cool name. Are there newer accelerators with uncool names, like “TD Bank Accelerator”?
pntha@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Melbourne has the Synchrotron
count_of_monte_carlo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Berkeley still has a cyclotron, though it’s a little newer (build in the 60’s) and much bigger.