Word: bevatrons
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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This was energy of a wholly different magnitude from any ever observed in atomic particles-more than 1,500,000 times the energy of the particles shot out by the University of California's powerful bevatron, and 50 million times the energy of a splitting uranium atom in an Abomb. The "something," Physicist Schein thought, was most probably an illusive particle called an antiproton (negative proton), which theoretical physicists have long guessed about, but never observed...
...strange, monstrous "bevatron" slowly coming to life on Charter Hill above Berkeley, Calif, is the world's greatest...
...University of California scientists who designed and built the bevatron are gradually stepping up its energy, starting only small groups of protons around the magnetic race track, but already their energy at the end of their run is 4.7 billion electron-volts. This is twice the energy of the second largest accelerator, the cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island. It is the energy of middle sized cosmic-ray particles, which have been accelerated, perhaps for billions of years, by unknown forces in space. Each proton at the end of its journey has a mass six times as great...
Shields Needed. When the bevatron is finally operating at its design energy, 6.25 bev, 20 swarms of 100 million protons each will burst from its chamber every minute. No one knows exactly how dangerous they will be. The scientists are gingerly observing the first small pulses to see how they should place their thick concrete shields...
...ancestors of the bevatron, accelerators with less than a thousandth of its power, extracted from nature the information that told man how to build uranium and hydrogen bombs. The bevatron will strike far deeper into the atomic nucleus, where matter and energy lie closely twined together...