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Most powerful accelerator

In the text it says the LHC at CERN is the most powerful accelerator. The beam power is definded as the beam current times the all over accelerating voltage the particles have seen. Furthermore, LHC is a storage ring and does not provide a DC (constant or CW) beam. Other facilities like the SNS in Oak Ridge or the PSI cyclotron in Switzerland provide DC beams with beam powers of up to 1.42 MW. Commonly the accelerator community regards them as the most powerful accelerators. I think LHC should be described in a way that it provides the highest kinetic energy not highest power.Delos1970 (talk) 16:27, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the article even states that for the High Intensity Proton Accelerator of PSI "The energy and current correspond to 1.3 MW beam power which is the highest of any accelerator currently existing." So by saying that the LHC is the most powerful accelerator, the article contradicts itself. One could change it in something like "the particle accelerator with highest center of mass energy", to highlight the purpose of the LHC to directly produce new heavy particles.--Theguy77 (talk) 14:09, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have quickly edited to say 'largest' for now. As noted the power (energy/time) of a circulating beam machine is not a very useful number, but it requires some kind of clarification vs the non-technical meaning. Perhaps a section/page on accelerator performance metrics would be helpful? 103.21.125.81 (talk) 11:54, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Particle accelerator short description

What is a suitable short description for "particle accelerator"? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 02:19, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Accelerator operator

I cleaned up the grammar on the "accelerator operator" section, although there's probably still room for improvement. However - is there even a point in HAVING that section in a general article about particle accelerators? Is a sufficiently notable part of the concept to require a section? PianoDan (talk) 20:54, 4 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tiny accelerators get electrons up to speed using lasers

There is an article from Science News at Tiny accelerators get electrons up to speed using lasers. I'm unable to find a page for semiconductor version of particle accelerator here. Rjluna2 (talk) 15:43, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]