PARTICLE ACCELERATORS

1
PARTICLE ACCELERATORS

• How do they work?
• What happens when particles collide?

Thomas Burnell Amy Buchanan-Hughes
2
Structure of the atom
3
Why would we want to collide particles anyway?
4
'Types' of energy

• Chemical potential
• Atomic
• Movement (Kinetic)
• Electrical potential
• Light and other electromagnetic
• Sound
• Gravitational potential
• u
• Thermal
• Strain

• C
• A
• M
• E
• L
• S
• G
• u
• T
• S

5
kinetic energy

2
x mass x speed
1-2

625 J
6
thermal energy

21 000 000 J
7
mass energy

4 500
000
000
000
000
000
J
8


energy
9
Accelerating large objects
10
Accelerating small objects
not so easy!
11
-

An i
r
on
12
Linear accelerators
A.C. Power source
13
'Standard' living room
14
Linear accelerator in TV
15
Circular accelerators
16
(No Transcript)
17
Every hour!
18
(No Transcript)
19
Thank you for listening