Other countries, including South Korea and Singapore, have technology accelerators or incubators in Silicon Valley and have had them for far longer.

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Dr Steve Myers, a Queen's graduate and director for accelerators and technology at CERN, the organisation that built and operates the LHC in Switzerland, will also give a talk.

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"What we are now seeing is a neutrino factory that will build upon our development since then of high power proton accelerators and target technology, " he explains.

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The panels, delivered by SRB Energy, are derived from vacuum technology developed at CERN for particle accelerators.

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