Hope you find something useful from these links. I learned a few things from
these pages myself.
SLAC Virtual Visitor Center (very informative for the layman)
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/accelerator.html
Particle Accelerators Around the World
http://www-elsa.physik.uni-bonn.de/accelerator_list.html
High Energy Theory and Nuclear Theory Groups at Brookhaven National
Laboratory.
(This lab made news in the last year as many scientists fear catastrophic
results from an experiment in progress)
http://thy.phy.bnl.gov/bnl.html
Encyclopedia.com - Results for particle accelerator
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/09876.html
How do accelerators work?
http://particleadventure.org/frameless/accel.html
Howstuffworks "How Atom Smashers Work
(very informative, but has annoying pop-ups to deal with)
http://www.howstuffworks.com/atom-smasher.htm
Exploratorium: Origins: CERN, the world's largest particle accelerator
(the "news section" on the right side of the page has some interesting
articles)
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/
For many more links, go to www.google.com and type in particle+accelerator
as a search parameter.
Hope you find something useful from these links. I learned a few things from
these pages myself.
Trevor Sands asked:
> If anyone is informed and interested, I have been thinking lately about
> particle accelerators. I know they are built to provide an
> infrastructure
> for various experiments in quantum physics, but beyond a basic
> understanding
> of subatomic phenomenon my knowledge on their true purpose is
> limited. How
> many are there in the U.S.? Where are they located?
