Since the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory powered up its "linac" half a century ago, the 2-mile-long particle accelerator has driven a large number of successful research ...

Heavy ions could radically improve radiation therapy for treatment of pancreatic cancer and other difficult-to-treat tumors if researchers can better understand how the ions work against cancer. A new ...

Canadian scientists are developing a new technology that integrates two existing medical devices -- medical linear accelerators, or "linacs," which produce powerful X-rays for treating cancer, and ...

How the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is transforming the world's longest linear accelerator into a novel X-ray laser. How the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center is transforming the world s ...

Linac 4 will replace an older accelerator as the first step in the complex that includes the LHC. At a ceremony today, CERN European research center inaugurated its newest accelerator. Linac 4 will ...

Under a two-year contract, Berkeley Lab scientists and engineers in the Center for Beam Optics will provide high-precision synchronization and control for the linacs, or linear accelerator sections, ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The medical linear accelerator, commonly known as LINAC ...

CERN's new linear accelerator (Linac 4) has now accelerated a beam up to its design energy, 160 MeV. This important milestone of the accelerator's commissioning phase took place on 25 October. Linac 4 ...