proton synchrotron
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of proton synchrotron
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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At CERN's fourmile, $400 million super proton synchrotron, Rubbia devised a method of creating supercollisions among subatomic particles that would, he predicted, produce the carriers of the weak force.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a demonstration, he reports in Science, he recently set up two detectors near Argonne's 12 billion-electron-volt proton synchrotron.
From Time Magazine Archive
One casualty is the Princeton-Pennsylvania proton synchrotron on the Princeton campus, which is used for basic particle research by 14 universities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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