Editing Linear particle accelerator (section)

==Disadvantages==

*The device length limits the locations where one may be placed.<ref name="Pichoff">{{cite journal |last1=Pichoff |first1=N. |title=Introduction to RF Linear accelerators |journal=CAS - CERN Accelerator School: Intermediate Accelerator Physics |date=2006 |pages=105–128 |doi=10.5170/CERN-2006-002.105 |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/941324/files/p105.pdf |access-date=6 March 2025}}</ref>
*A great number of driver devices and their associated power supplies are required, increasing the construction and maintenance expense of this portion.{{r|Pichoff}}
*If the walls of the accelerating cavities are made of normally conducting material and the accelerating fields are large, the wall resistivity converts electric energy into heat quickly. 
*[[Superconductivity|Superconductors]] need constant cooling to keep them below their critical temperature, and their accelerating fields are limited by [[Superconducting magnet#Magnet quench|quenches]]. 
* Due to these limitations, high energy accelerators such as [[SLAC]], still the longest in the world (in its various generations), are run in short pulses, limiting the average current output and forcing the experimental detectors to handle data coming in short bursts.