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UK
/sˈaɪklətɹˌɒn/
]
[ US /ˈsaɪkɫətɹɑn/ ]
[ US /ˈsaɪkɫətɹɑn/ ]
NOUN
- an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
How To Use cyclotron In A Sentence
- For example, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, linear accelerators and interplanetary spacecraft all cost too much for single investigators.
- The antiproton was produced when protons from a cyclotron were used to bombard a copper target.
- Of special interest for the acceleration of protons in the range 200 to 600 MeV is the separated-sector cyclotron, which consists of a number of iron sectors, instead of Accelerators and Nobel Laureates
- Michigan State University is the site of a very powerful atom smasher, called a cyclotron.
- Analyzing the resonant peak to acquire the charge - mass ratio and cyclotron frequency of the ions.
- In 1938 the first European cyclotron at Collège de France in Paris accelerated a deuteron beam up to 4 MeV and by hitting a target, an intense source of neutrons was produced. Accelerators and Nobel Laureates
- It was Ernest Orlando Lawrence who invented the first cyclotron back in 1930.
- The improvement of the original 1.2m cyclotron to enhance its accelerated particles-energies with increasing main magnet exciting current and reshimming the magnetic field is described.
- One example of such a cascade facility is the GANIL accelerator complex in Caen, where two sector focusing cyclotrons are used for heavy-ion physics. Accelerators and Nobel Laureates
- The first students to work on the cyclotron in the lab setting modified the magnet to better focus the proton beam.