📚 noun • entry_id 46008
synchrocyclotron
/sɪŋkɹəʊˈsaɪklətɹɒn/
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sincrociclotrón
A particle accelerator like a cyclotron, but which operates at variable frequency to account for the particles gaining energy, allowing for greater energies to be achieved.
2004: The synchrocyclotron was able to accelerate protons to sufficient energies that collisions with nuclei produce pions, the lightest particles that, we now know, are made from…
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