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This chapter is an introduction to Particle Physics accelerators, the major source of antiparticles at our disposal. It explains the physics underlying high energy collisions—electron–positron as well as hadron collisions—and after that it reviews the history of the large accelerators for Particle Physics experiments, ending up at CERN.
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Observe that, depending on the context, the term “particles” refers to particles and antiparticles alike, as “antiparticle” is simply a short name for “antimatter particle”. Nevertheless, the term antiparticle is more general, since mesons and gauge bosons, which are neither matter or antimatter, can be viewed as particles and antiparticles too.
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The luminosity of a beam is the number of particles per unit of surface swept and unit of time. Hence, the number of collisions produced when making a beam hit a fixed target, or another beam, is directly proportional to its luminosity.
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Gato-Rivera, B. (2021). Particle Physics Accelerators. In: Antimatter. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67791-6_6
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