Proposed synchrotron could store supersonic beams of hydrogen atoms

(Phys.org)—With a circumference of 27 km (17 miles), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) holds the claim of being the largest particle accelerator in the world, but it is far from being the only device of its kind. Currently there are about 30,000 particle accelerators in operation around the world, many of them used in medicine and industrial applications, and some of them small enough to fit on a tabletop.