Word: cosmotron
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...ring, big enough to encircle seven baseball diamonds laid end to end, will be a sight like nothing else on earth, but what it will do for scientists may be even more spectacular. The accelerators already in operation (most powerful is Brookhaven's 2.3 bev cosmotron) have revealed that the nuclei of atoms are anything but simple...
Last week CERN decided to build its center near Geneva. Feature of the place will be a new kind of cosmotron (a super-powerful particle accelerator) made possible by a theory recently developed by scientists at Brookhaven (N.Y.) National Laboratory. The new machine's principal part, a doughnut-shaped magnet, will be 600 ft. in diameter, ten times the diameter of Brookhaven's 3 billion-volt cosmotron, the largest now in operation...
...turn into energy as soon as it encounters atoms of normal matter (when a positron hits an electron, they annihilate each other, leaving gamma rays as an X to mark the spot. All such possibilities, says Auger, are on "the frontiers of science." Only the 30 billion-volt cosmotron can test their reality...