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Basics of Accelerators and of
1.1 Accelerators and
Can you imagine that electrons
society
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Are planets circling their Suns?
1.2 Acceleration of
Space exploration, wars, elections
what and how
2
And hundreds of computer tongues
1.3 Accelerators and
Author’s translation of 1920 poem of
inventions
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Valery Bryusov “The World of
1.4
How to invent
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Electron”
1.5 TRIZ method
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1.6 TRIZ method for
In this chapter we will discuss the basic terms related to
science
13 accelerators. We will also describe the framework and meth1.7 AS-TRIZ
14 ods of the theory of inventive problem solving.
1.8 Creativity
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1.1 Accelerators and society
Accelerators are essential for science and society — they are
in use in high energy physics, nuclear physics, healthcare and
life science. They are important to industry, the development
of new materials, energy and security, and can be applied to
many other fields.
It is enough to state just three reasons why society needs
accelerators: tens of millions of patients receive acceleratorbased diagnoses and treatments each year in hospitals and
About 30% of Nobel prizes in clinics around the world; all products that are processed,
Physics are due to use of ac treated or inspected by particle beams have a collective ancelerators.
nual value of more than $500B; and a significant fraction of
the Nobel prizes in physics are directly connected to the use
of accelerators.
If you are a young person thinking about your future, you
might be interested to know that accelerator science can lead
to attractive career prospects, because whether you are more
inclined towards a theoretical approach, experiments or computer modeling, there will be an array of tasks and opportunities ready for you. Moreover, the knowledge gained and
developed in accelerator science has connections and applications to surprisingly remote disciplines, from stock market
predictions to planetary motion dynamics.
The recent discovery of the Higgs boson by the Large
Hadron Collider — the grandest machine ever built — has
once again demonstrated accelerator science’s and associated
technologies’ potential to reveal some of the most fundamental constructs of nature.
the Art of Inventiveness
1
DOI: 10.1201/b18696-1
Basics of Accelerators and of
1.1 Accelerators and
Can you imagine that electrons
society
1
Are planets circling their Suns?
1.2 Acceleration of
Space exploration, wars, elections
what and how
2
And hundreds of computer tongues
1.3 Accelerators and
Author’s translation of 1920 poem of
inventions
6
Valery Bryusov “The World of
1.4
How to invent
8
Electron”
1.5 TRIZ method
9
1.6 TRIZ method for
In this chapter we will discuss the basic terms related to
science
13 accelerators. We will also describe the framework and meth1.7 AS-TRIZ
14 ods of the theory of inventive problem solving.
1.8 Creativity
17
1.1 Accelerators and society
Accelerators are essential for science and society — they are
in use in high energy physics, nuclear physics, healthcare and
life science. They are important to industry, the development
of new materials, energy and security, and can be applied to
many other fields.
It is enough to state just three reasons why society needs
accelerators: tens of millions of patients receive acceleratorbased diagnoses and treatments each year in hospitals and
About 30% of Nobel prizes in clinics around the world; all products that are processed,
Physics are due to use of ac treated or inspected by particle beams have a collective ancelerators.
nual value of more than $500B; and a significant fraction of
the Nobel prizes in physics are directly connected to the use
of accelerators.
If you are a young person thinking about your future, you
might be interested to know that accelerator science can lead
to attractive career prospects, because whether you are more
inclined towards a theoretical approach, experiments or computer modeling, there will be an array of tasks and opportunities ready for you. Moreover, the knowledge gained and
developed in accelerator science has connections and applications to surprisingly remote disciplines, from stock market
predictions to planetary motion dynamics.
The recent discovery of the Higgs boson by the Large
Hadron Collider — the grandest machine ever built — has
once again demonstrated accelerator science’s and associated
technologies’ potential to reveal some of the most fundamental constructs of nature.
the Art of Inventiveness
1
DOI: 10.1201/b18696-1