bevatron

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See also: bévatron

English

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Etymology

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From BeV +‎ -a- +‎ -tron.

Noun

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bevatron (plural bevatrons)

  1. A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
    • 1948 January, “Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets?”, in Popular Science, volume 152, number 1:
      Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron.
    • 1987, Armin Hermann, Lanfranco Belloni, John Krige, History of CERN: Launching the European Organization for Nuclear Research:
      By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme.
    • 1990, Philip J. Regal, The anatomy of judgment:
      In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky, a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility.

Descendants

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  • Polish: bewatron
  • Russian: беватро́н (bevatrón)

Translations

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French bévatron.

Noun

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bevatron n (plural bevatroane)

  1. (physics) bevatron

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