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A cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts
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bevatron
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The Bevatron was a particle accelerator — specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron — at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , U.S., which began operating in 1954. The antiproton was discovered there in 1955, resulting in the 1959 Nobel Prize in ...
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n. a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts
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n. A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
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bevatron \bev"a*tron\ n. a particle accelerator which is capable of accelerating protons up to 6 gigaeletron volts.
Usage examples of bevatron.
The particles of which they were made were born, in the great clumsy bevatrons of that age, some micro-seconds in the future, and their assembly into atoms of anti-matter in the present time of the observers was in fact the moment of their death.