Tickets Alert: Visit the UK’s largest particle accelerator – the Diamond Light Source

In the countryside not far from Didcot can be found a stunning flying saucer of a building, which also happens to house a large particle accelerator, and they open it a few times a year to the public for free tours.
(c) Diamond Light Source
Known as a synchrotron, it’s a large particle accelerator, but rather than smashing atoms together to study them, as is done at CERN, here they are used to generate powerful light beams that can be used to study the inside of materials.
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