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particle accelerator

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Linear accelerator (LINAC) CE5 Cyclotron: As the charged particles move faster, they spiral out to the edge of the Ds. particle accelerator, apparatus used in nuclear physics to produce bea...

accelerator

(Encyclopedia)accelerator: see particle accelerator. ...

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

(Encyclopedia)Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), physical science research center located near Batavia, Ill., est. 1968 as the National Accelerator Laboratory, renamed 1974 in honor of Enrico Fermi. ...

Richter, Burton

(Encyclopedia)Richter, Burton rĭkˈtər [key], 1931–2018, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956. A professor at Stanford, Richter designed and built a particle a...

cosmotron

(Encyclopedia)cosmotron: see particle accelerator. ...

cyclotron

(Encyclopedia)cyclotron: see particle accelerator. ...

bevatron

(Encyclopedia)bevatron: see particle accelerator. ...

betatron

(Encyclopedia)betatron: see particle accelerator. ...

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