bevatron

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bevatron

(ˈbɛvəˌtrɒn)

(General Physics) a proton synchrotron at the University of California

[C20: from BeV + -tron]

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Noun

bevatron - a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts

cyclotron - an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles

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bevatrone

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1966 The Bevatron accelerator (left) in Berkeley, Calif., produces the first observed antiproton.

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The "rad lab has no buffer zone between it and nearby residents and the adjacent central campus." Evaluations have flagged radiation emissions from two of its commercial user operations, the Bevatron and National Tritium Labeling Facility.

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It was called the Bevatron because of the energy range of the particles it produced, and indeed it could produce particles in the energy range of fairly intense cosmic rays.