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Accelerators for America's Future U.S. Department of Energy Home Working with the National Laboratories Workshops Symposium Symposium Working Groups Symposium Agenda Resources News Image Gallery Meetings and Events Accelerator Applications Accelerator Applications Fact Sheet Reports Download Report Request Printed Copy -- Feature -- Synchrotron light sources, such as the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, provide research opportunities for industry. Read more -- The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory helps researchers improve such areas as medicine, material science and agriculture. Read more -- The semiconductor industry relies on accelerator technology to implant ions in silicon chips. Read more -- Superconducting wire developed for accelerators made it possible to create powerful magnets for medical diagnostic tools such as magnetic resonance imaging. Read more -- More than 30,000 particle accelerators are in operation around the world, serving medicine, industry, energy, the environment, national security, and discovery science. As accelerator science and technology continue to advance, so too will their benefits to society. Upcoming Meetings and Events Accelerating to a Bright Future Brookhaven public outreach event November 28, 2018 Upton, New York Read more » Midwest Regional Workshop on Accelerator Stewardship Test Facility Program Fermilab and Argonne public outreach events December 5-6, 2018 Batavia, Illinois, and Lemont, Illinois Read more » Accelerators: Driving Applications for Society Jefferson Lab public outreach event December 17, 2018 Newport News, Virginia Read more » » Meetings and Events archive News 10 reasons why you can't live without a particle accelerator Nautilus Particle accelerators can make you healthy and wealthy. Read more » A second chance at sight symmetry Silicon microstrip detectors, a staple in particle physics experiments, provide information that may be critical to restoring vision to some who lost it. Read more » Accelerating science and technology at the Cockcroft Institute Physics World Particle accelerator technology is the focus of the UK's Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology, located at Daresbury Laboratory, UK. Read more » Art detectives team up euronews What does an early Picasso self-portrait have in common with a 3,000-year-old Egyptian lapis-lazuli beetle? They are both under close examination using complex and advanced research techniques. Read more » How particle physics can save your life symmetry magazine From new medicines to cancer treatment, the tools of particle physics play an important role in hospitals around the world. Read more » CERN CLOUD experiment finds secret sauce for cloud formation ars technica Energetic particles from CERN's accelerator are channeled into a precisely controlled chamber where any ultra-fine particles that form can be measured. Read more » Canadian accelerator produces a city's worth of medical isotopes overnight Nature A Canadian team has developed an upgrade that allows hospital cyclotrons to make a much-needed diagnostic tracer, and has proven it can pump out enough overnight to fulfil a city's needs the next day. Read more » Large Hadron Collider scientists developing new cancer treatments The Telegraph New types of radiotherapy to treat cancer are being developed by scientists who work on the Large Hadron Collider. Read more » » News Archive Resources Illinois Accelerator Research Center At the Illinois Accelerator Research Center scientists and engineers from Fermilab, Argonne and Illinois universities will work with industrial partners to research and develop breakthroughs in accelerator science and translate them into applications for the nation's health, wealth and security. Learn more » -- The Acceleratorer Information about conferences and workshops for particle accelerator scientists and members of industry. Read more » Accelerators and Beams – Tools of Discovery and Innovation Published by the Division of Physics of Beams of the American Physical Society Read more » symmetry magazine: Accelerator Applications From heart valves to shrink wrap, this archive highlights the many applications of particle accelerators. Read more » The Scientific Century: securing our future prosperity A report published by the Royal Society, the national academy of science in the UK, that explains the need to make science and innovation the focus of the UK's long-term strategy for economic growth. Read more » » Resources Archive About Accelerators for America's Future The Accelerators for America's Future website grew out of a 2009 symposium, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, on the uses and needs of accelerators for the discovery science, energy and environment, defense and security, industrial, and medical communities. It serves as a source of information on the uses of accelerators for science and society at large and provides information on activities and meetings of relevance to both accelerator providers and users, reports of key workshops, and other accelerator-related resources of interest to these communities. Most importantly, the site maintains links to the accelerator-related capabilities of the U.S. national laboratories to facilitate making contact with these institutions in support of the Department of Energy's accelerator R&D stewardship activities. Office of High-Energy Physics Accelerator Stewardship Putting accelerators to work on the challenges of our time is part of the Office of High-Energy Physics Accelerator R&D Stewardship task. Find out how you can participate! Go to DOE Accelerator Stewardship page Copyright © 2016 U.S. Department of Energy...