There are many applications for particle accelerators, even outside research facilities, but for the longest time they have been large, cumbersome machines, not to mention very expensive to operate.

Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered how solar activity affects the velocity distribution and evolution of helium pickup ions. Pickup ions are charged particles created when neutral ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Keiichi Ogasawara indicates that helium pickup ions are a wellspring of solar energetic particles. These high-energy accelerated particles travel ...

Muons are getting a move on. In a step toward new types of particle physics experiments, scientists cooled and then accelerated a beam of muons. The subatomic particles, heavy cousins of electrons, ...

A small NASA spacecraft, dedicated solely to the study of high energy processes in gigantic explosions in the atmosphere of the Sun, is scheduled to be launched early next week. Although the 293 kg ...

The microquasar SS 433 stands out as one of the most intriguing objects within our Milky Way. A pair of oppositely directed beams of plasma ('jets') spirals away perpendicularly from the binary ...

Scientists have discovered how solar activity affects the velocity distribution and evolution of helium pickup ions. Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered how solar activity affects ...