January 8, 2020

SLAC/Stanford researchers build a particle accelerator that fits on a chip

Just as engineers once compressed some of the power of room-sized mainframes into desktop PCs, so too have the researchers shown how to pack some of the punch delivered by today’s ginormous particle accelerators onto a tiny silicon chip.

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