Accelerator physics: GK, Current Affairs, Questions, Trivia and News

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) world’s largest and most powerful particle collider and largest machine in world

March 11, 2019

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider and the largest machine in the world. It is in news because The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has approved the experiment designed to look for light and weakly interacting particles at the LHC. It is planning a new experiment ..

XFEL- X-Ray Free Electron Laser

April 12, 2018

XFEL is the world’s largest and powerful X-ray laser. It was unveiled in Hamburg, Germany. At present, 11 countries have participated in the project. The European XFEL is constructed such that the electrons produce X-ray light in synchronisation, resulting in high-intensity X-ray pulses with the properties of laser light and at intensities much brighter than those produced by conventional synchrotron light ..