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What is a bevatron?

What is a bevatron? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
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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.
The experiment was to study the properties beams of radioactive isotopes created at the Bevatron.
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.
In 1955, using the new bevatron particle accelerator, Segrè and Chamberlain produced and identified antiprotons and thus set the stage for the discovery of many additional antiparticles.
The system is used extensively in experiments with the bevatron.
The bevatron will strike far deeper into the atomic nucleus, where matter and energy lie closely twined together.

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