Abstract
Beams of high-energy particles with well-defined properties are very important both for fundamental research and applied sciences. Particle accelerators are the devices that allow to produce these high-energy particle beams.
High-energy particle accelerators have a length of many kilometers and are the largest scientific tools used today. We give a short overview over the main types of accelerators, and in particular synchrotrons, storage rings, and linear accelerators, their main properties and fields of application.
The concepts and basic formulas are illustrated and discussed using the main parameters of the largest existing or planned high-energy accelerators.
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Burkhardt, H. (2012). Accelerators for Particle Physics. In: Grupen, C., Buvat, I. (eds) Handbook of Particle Detection and Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13271-1_7
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