Thursday 20 December 2012

Finding out about particle accelerators. STEM lecture 2

Lecture given by Dr Suzie Sheehy, particle accelerator designer, from Rutherford Appleton Lab.

Did I get this info right?!
Two like charges repel; two opposite charges attract.
To make an accelerator you must have a charge.
The accelerator has to work in a vacuum.
The closer to the speed of light you go, the more energy is required, this creates more mass.
How do you stop a beam? Use graphite.

To make an accelerator you need:
particles
energy
control
collision
detection.

Other info:
Van de graaff generator explained on YouTube.
Look up Anatoli Bugorski. Article in Wired.
Ernest Walton on Wiki.
Large Hadron Collider on YouTube.
Black holes pop out of existence so quickly they cannot suck in matter. The world's not ending thanks to a particle accelerator.

Find out what you can about particle accelerators, and tell me!