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Bevatron and Bevalac  (Berkeley, 1954-1993).  Weak focusing.
AGS  (Brookhaven, 1960-)  and  RHIC.  Strong focusing.
Tevatron  (Fermilab, 1970-2011).  1 TeV.
Large_Hadron_Collider  (CERN, 2010-2018).  14 TeV.

(2019-07-28)  Electrostatic Generators and Electron Gun
Accelerating charged particles with a constant electric field.

Magnetron (1912)   |   Greinacher voltage multiplier (1913, 1920)   |   Heinrich Greinacher (1880-1974)
 
Van de Graaff generator (1929)   |   Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901-1967)
 
Cockcroft-Walton generator (1932)  |  John Cockcroft (1897-1967)  |  Ernest Walton (1903-1995)  |  Nobel 1951

(2019-07-28)  Linear Accelerator   (Linac)
Using radio waves instead of static electric fields.

Linear accelerator (1924)   |   Gustav Ising (1883-1960)   |   Rolf Widerøe (1902-1996)

(2019-07-28)  Cyclotron.
Accelerating particles on a spiral trajectory.

Cyclotron (1929-1930, Patent 1932)   |   Ernest O. Lawrence (1901-1958)   |   Nobel 1939

(2019-07-28)  Betatron   (Induction Accelerator)
Electrons in a circular vacuum tube form the  secondary  of a transformer.

Betatron (1934)   |   Max Steenbeck (1904-1981)

(2019-07-28)  Microtron   (Veksler 1944)
Accelerating particles on a spiral trajectory using confined electrodes.

Microtron (1944)   |   Vladimir Veksler (1907-1966)

(2019-07-28)  Synchrotron   (Veksler 1944.  McMillan 1945)
The basic design of modern circular particle accelerators.

The particles are confined to a large evacuated tube of relatively small section. 

Synchrotron (1944)   |   Vladimir Veksler (1907-1966)

(2020-05-09)  Strong focusing   (Christofilos, 1949)
What makes narrow beams possible.

Alternating gradients.

Strong focusing   |   US Patent 2736799A   |   Nicholas Christofilos (1916-1972)
Ernest Courant (1920-2020)   |   M. Stanley Livingston (1905-1986)   |   Hartland Snyder (1913-1962)

(2019-12-13)  Large Hadron Collider
Structure of the latest particle collider at CERN.

The particles are confined to a large evacuated tube of relatively small section. 

Beyond the Higgs: What's Next for the LHC? (59:44)  by  Harry Cliff  (RI, 2017-10-31).
 
LHC (35:33, in French)  by  David Louapre  (2019-12-13).
 
Inside the Large Hadron Collider (1:35:28)  World Science Festival  (2015-03-04).

(2022-09-25)  Wakefield  linear accelerators  (Joshi, 2003)
Acceleration of charged particles in plasma using lasers.

The basic idea is to let charged particles surf the wakes of the wave produced in a plasma by a laser beam.  This was proposed in 1979 by  Toshiki Tajima (1948-)  and  John M. Dawson (1930-2001).  It was first realized experimentally by Tajima in 1994.  The technique has been perfected at UCLA since 2003 by the group led by  Chan Joshi.  Nowadays,  every major accelerator facility is planning a  wakefied  booster upgrade.

Plasma acceleration   |   Chandrashekhar "Chan" J. Joshi (1953-)
 
Wakefield Accelerators: The Future of Particle Colliders? (8:54)  The Tought Emporium  (2018-02-26).