We accelerate
particles in our daily work
and accelerator physics as professional association.
Acceleration speeds you up.
Magnetic fields act perpendicularly to the velocity of charged particles, thereby changing their direction. Uniform magnetic fields lead to a circular path and are used, for example, in ring accelerators.
Acceleration keeps you on track.
Magnetic fields act perpendicularly to the velocity of charged particles, thereby changing their direction. Uniform magnetic fields lead to a circular path and are used, for example, in ring accelerators.
Acceleration keeps things together.
Magnetic fields, whose strength increases with distance from the optimum particle path, act like optical lenses: in one plane they bring the particles together, but in the plane perpendicular to it they separate. In modern accelerators, hundreds of such bundling magnets ensure cohesion.****