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Particle Accelerators and the Accelerator Tour
This resource, from the Living in a Materials World CD-ROM produced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), describes how particle accelerators are used to research matter at the atomic and sub-atomic level. The resource looks at the history of research into particles and describes each of the three main types of particle accelerator:
*the linear accelerator (linac)
*the ring or circular accelerator (cyclotron)
*the circular synchrotron
The accelerator tour describes the ISIS particle accelerators and their work.
STFC is a part of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) partnership of research councils.
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