Compact Accelerator Achieves a Major Energy Milestone
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 4, 2023 — A compact particle accelerator developed by the University of Texas at Austin, several national laboratories, and the Texas-based company TAU Systems has produced an electron beam with an energy of 10 billion electron volts (10 GeV). The accelerator, less than 20 m long, is among three in the United States capable of producing an energy level that high, though the other two are both approximately 3 km long. “We can now reach those energies in 10 cm,” said Bjorn Manuel