Maryland Electron Ring project

Hello I'm not sure where to post this but anyhow while doing some research for a specific project I'm currently on I came across this link and it is refering to object.. Does anyone have more insight on it since its something new to me maybe someone already has complete knowledge to share thanks, heres and insert alone with the original link....

The physics of high-current beams in the space-charge dominated regime is not sufficiently well-understood. Traditional circular accelerators and storage rings typically operate in a regime where space charge is a minor perturbation. However, such applications as future high-energy physics colliders (e.g. muon colliders), synchrotron light sources, spallation neutron sources, and heavy ion inertial fusion drivers demand increasingly higher currents. Since the beam quality cannot be sacrificed, the challenge is to transport the high-current beams for long distances without substantial degradation



Maryland Electron Ring project



[edit on 20-6-2005 by 2ndSEED]

Particle accelerator research. These things are all over the world.

Here's a PDF paper about it:
www.glue.umd.edu/~marcelp/ Papers/1999_Reiser_et_al_PAC_umer.pdf

Here's a basic news feed on them:
newton.ex.ac.uk...

...and more locations.
dir.yahoo.com...

This is PhD level physics and mathematics stuff.