By Peter Weiss
A novel scheme for increasing the number of collisions in particle accelerators has boosted the performance of the world’s highest-energy collider and promises to rev up others.
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This scheme, called high-energy electron cooling, helped the Tevatron collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Ill., last October to shatter the 23-year-old world record for particle-collision rates.