Crossword clues for cyclotron
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cyclotron \cyclotron\ n. a particle accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in nuclear physics and particle physics.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated spirally outward through a fixed magnetic and alternating electric fields.
WordNet
n. an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
Wikipedia
A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1934 in which charged particles accelerate outwards from the centre along a spiral path. The particles are held to a spiral trajectory by a static magnetic field and accelerated by a rapidly varying ( radio frequency) electric field. Lawrence was awarded the 1939 Nobel prize in physics for this invention. Cyclotrons were the most powerful particle accelerator technology until the 1950s when they were superseded by the synchrotron, and are still used to produce particle beams in physics and nuclear medicine. The largest single-magnet cyclotron was the synchrocyclotron built between 1940 and 1946 by Lawrence at the University of California at Berkeley, which could accelerate protons to 730 MeV. The largest cyclotron is the multimagnet TRIUMF accelerator at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia which can produce 500 MeV protons.
There are over 1200 cyclotrons used in nuclear medicine worldwide for the production of radionuclides.
A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator.
Cyclotron may also refer to:
- Cyclotron resonance, a phenomenon observed both in plasma physics and condensed matter physics.
- Cyclotron (comics), a minor character in the DC Universe
- Cyclotron (Gladiators), an event from the television series Gladiators
- Cyclotron (album), a 1993 album by the rock band Blind Idiot God
Cyclotron is the third album by Blind Idiot God, released in 1992 through Avant Records. It became the band's final studio album for twenty-three years after drummer Ted Epstein left the band in 1996, causing the band to go on an indefinite hiatus. Cyclotron remains Blind Idiot God's last album recorded with the original line-up intact.
Composer Bill Laswell, who had worked with the band on their previous album, returned to fill production duties. Guitarist Andy Hawkins began utilizing more feedback and looping techniques in the music, which he would further explore on Halo, his solo guitar project.
Cyclotron is the name of two different DC Comics characters.
Usage examples of "cyclotron".
They had gone back to an even earlier stage, a crude expansion of the cyclotron principle.
In some ways the fire was well located: at the back of the Tech Area, away from the gas stocks, cyclotron and particle accelerator, near the fire station and close to hydrants.
Tech Area: physicists from the cyclotron shack, soldiers from the boiler house, doctors from the medical labs, office clerks and, in front, the Indians who swept every building.
In this multimillion-pound complex, tiny samples of water or carbon compounds arc placed at the heart of a cyclotron which fires vastly accelerated ion beams at them, creating very short-lived isotopes.
Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.
This has been inevitable since the minute we figured out how to break up quarks en masse without a cyclotron.
With all of their noisy devotion to the age of science, their hysterically technological jargon, their cyclotrons, their sound rays, these men were moved forward, not by the image of an industrial skyline, but by the vision of that form of existence which the industrialists had swept away—the vision of a fat, unhygienic rajah of India, with vacant eyes staring in indolent stupor out of stagnant layers of flesh, with nothing to do but run precious gems through his fingers and, once in a while, stick a knife into the body of a starved, toil-dazed, germeaten creature, as a claim to a few grains of the creature's rice, then claim it from hundreds of millions of such creatures and thus let the rice grains gather into gems.
That stuff to the leftthat's a neat little thing for doing what men have been trying to do with hundred-ton cyclotrons and so forth.
Here is learning that our ancients possessed, as did the men of alchemy, but that the builders of cyclotrons have lost.
At both ends of the linear accelerator, electron-positron pairs were created in small cyclotrons.