Research and Development

In universities and government laboratories around the world, vacuum is an enabling technology for high-energy physics applications such as particle accelerators. Particle accelerators require high vacuum, equivalent to conditions in outer space, in order to avoid collisions with gas molecules as the atoms are accelerated. This market is relatively low growth and depends upon government funding. Synchrotron accelerator research laboratories around the world have been expanding their infrastructure for studying proteins, chemicals, and innovative medical applications.