• Question: what is acceIerator physics (pIus i aIso Iove ac/dc!)

    Asked by anon-238453 to Chris on 10 Mar 2020.
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      Chris Carlton answered on 10 Mar 2020:


      Glad to see someone else who loves AC/DC! I was very lucky to see them when they headlined at Download Festival, greatest concert ever…

      Accelerator physics relates to building and running particle accelerators. A particle accelerator fires a particular group of particles (generally hydrogen) at very high speeds to study their properties. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is definitely the most well known but its quite a niche area!

      If you’d like more information there is a nice page on CERN’s website with a nice animation which explains it more https://home.cern/science/accelerators

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