Crossword clues for betatron
The Collaborative International Dictionary
betatron \be"ta*tron\ n. a type of particle accelerator which accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux.
Syn: induction accelerator.
Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) A form of cyclotron used to accelerate electrons to high speed.
WordNet
n. accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux [syn: induction accelerator]
Wikipedia
A betatron is a cyclic particle accelerator type. It is essentially a transformer with a torus-shaped vacuum tube as its secondary coil. An alternating current in the primary coils accelerates electrons in the vacuum around a circular path. The betatron was the first important machine for producing high energy electrons.
Betatron was developed in 1935 by Max Steenbeck in Germany to accelerate electrons, but the concepts ultimately originate from Rolf Widerøe, whose development of an induction accelerator failed due to the lack of transverse focusing. Subsequent development occurred in the United States through Donald Kerst in the 1940s.
Usage examples of "betatron".
Erickson got up from where he had been fussing over the power leads to their trigger a modified betatron rather than a resonant accelerator.
He hurried away to the shield around the target of the betatron, left open by Erickson.
Human flesh couldn't stand many months in a stretch of the cosmic radiation that sleeted through these spaces, the synchrotron and betatron and Cerenkov quanta that boiled from particles hurled in the gas across the intertwining magnetism of atoms and suns.