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The following news release is being issued today by the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the UK. It describes a prototype of a new kind of particle accelerator with applications for physics research, medical therapies, and other fields. The accelerator was developed in collaboration with physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. For more information about Brookhaven’s role in this research, please see the accompanying feature article.
The paper can be viewed online at the Nature Physics website.
S. Machida (corresponding author) et al
‘Acceleration in the linear non-scaling fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerator EMMA’
Nature Physics DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS2179
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Images of the EMMA accelerator at STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory are available upon request.
Wendy Ellison
STFC Press Officer
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- View the EMMA accelerator online: Particle Accelerators – Backstage Science on YouTube
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Number: 12-1375
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