Accelerator Design
There are several different ways to design these accelerators, each with its
benefits and drawbacks. Here's a quick list of the major accelerator design
choices:
- Accelerators can be arranged to provide collisions of two types:
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Fixed target: Shoot a particle at a fixed target.
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Colliding beams: Two beams of particles are made to cross each other.
- Accelerators are shaped in one of two ways:
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Linacs: Linear accelerators,
in which the particle starts at one end and comes out the other.
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Synchrotrons: Accelerators built in a circle,
in which the particle goes around and around and around...