cosmotron

American  

[kos-muh-tron] / ˈkɒs məˌtrɒn /

noun

Physics.

1. a proton accelerator.

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Cosmotron British  

/ ˈkɒzməˌtrɒn /

noun

1. a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)

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Etymology

Origin of cosmotron

First recorded in 1945–50; cosmo- + -tron

Example Sentences

His Manhattan firm of Strobel & Salzman has a variety of edifices to its credit, including shopping centers, railroad stations, factories, hospitals, churches, and the cosmotron building at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

From Time Magazine Archive

The 2.3 bev cosmotron, a "doughnut" 70 ft. in diameter and 8 ft. in cross section, needs 2,000 tons of steel for the magnets that keep its protons on circular orbits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new machine's principal part, a doughnut-shaped magnet, will be 600 ft. in diameter, ten times the diameter of Brookhaven's 3 billion-volt cosmotron, the largest now in operation.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is twice the energy of the second largest accelerator, the cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brookhaven settled for a cosmotron rated at 2.5 billion volts, though it received the GAC’s explicit promise that it could come back to the well for bigger machines in the future.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik