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Particle accelerator
A
particle accelerator
is a machine that uses
electromagnetic fields
to propel
charged
particles
to nearly light speed and to contain them in well-defined
beams
. Large accelerators are best known for their use in
particle physics
as
colliders
(e.g. the
LHC
at
CERN
,
RHIC
at
Brookhaven National Laboratory
, and
Tevatron
at
Fermilab
). Other kinds of particle accelerators are used in a large variety of applications, including
particle therapy
for
oncological
purposes, and as
synchrotron light sources
for the study of
condensed matter physics
. There are currently more than 30,000 accelerators in operation around the world.
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