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Triple milestone for Cornell’s ERL programme

| 29 March 2012 Researchers at Cornell University's Energy Recovery Linac programme recently achieved three milestones in two months. One of them could lead to more reliable superconducting accelerator cavities. Category: Around the World | Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Cornell makes progress on Energy Recovery Linac

| 27 January 2011 The idea behind recycling is straightforward: reuse what you have to make more of the same. Applying this concept, however, is seldom simple.  In the case of Cornell University's Energy Recovery Linac (ERL), recycling energy to generate particle beams requires technological advancements that are born from decades of research.  If scientists there fulfil their mission, they'll be able to use particle beams to accelerate particle beams, producing some of the brightest bunches to be made by an accelerator. Category: Around the World | Tagged: , ,

Time to recover

| 31 July 2008 In a linear accelerator, energy conservation is not really on the achievement list. To get up to the required luminosity, accelerator experts have one chance to push the particle beams to their limits, putting much energy into the bunches, correcting, scraping and tweaking them along the way only to smash them into each other and direct the straggly remains into a dump. Not so an Energy Recovery Linac, currently at the design and first prototype stage at Cornell University. The electron beams also get dumped after one run, but before that happens, they are tricked into handing over their energy back to the superconducting machine that accelerated them. Category: Feature | Tagged: , , , , , ,