bevatron
See also: bévatron
English
Etymology
Noun
bevatron (plural bevatrons)
- A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
- 1948, Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets? (in Popular Science, volume 152, number 1, January 1948)
- 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.
- 1948, Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets? (in Popular Science, volume 152, number 1, January 1948)