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Accelerators
Accelerators solve two problems for physicists. First, since all particles behave like waves, physicists use accelerators to increase a particle's momentum, thus decreasing its wavelength enough that physicists can use it to poke inside atoms. Second, the energy of speedy particles is used to create the massive particles that physicists want to study.
A particle accelerator is a device that uses electric fields to propel electrically charged particles to high speeds and to contain them. An ordinary CRT television set is a simple form of accelerator. There are two basic types: linear (i.e. straight-line) accelerators and circular accelerators. This page describes types of particle accelerators. For a list of existing and historic particle accelerators see List of accelerators in particle physics.
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