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...long enough to identify them. Drs. Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segre, Clyde Wiegand and Thomas Ypsilantis worked with Berkeley's Bevatron, a particle accelerator that was built by the Atomic Energy Commission for just such jobs. It can shoot a proton so fast that it carries 6.2 Bev. (billion electron volts) of energy. Physicists had figured that when a proton of this power hits a neutron, it will create a new proton and an antiproton. In such "pair formation," about two Bev. of energy is turned into matter. This is the reverse of the action in atomic bombs, where matter...
...partner-son, Peter Steiger, were busy checking blueprints for a mammoth Steiger-designed atomic laboratory near Geneva. Commissioned by the twelve-nation European Council for Nuclear Research, the laboratory will cover 90 acres, will incorporate such new-age elements as a synchrocyclotron and a 25 billion electron-volt proton-synchrotron (TIME...
...knows yet where cosmic ray particles come from. A few may originate in rare solar "flares," but most of them come from farther space. The fastest particles pack an enormous punch, up to 1016 ev (10 million billion electron volts) of energy. To accelerate a flea to this speed, said Neher, would require all the energy released by a hydrogen bomb...
...latest expedition, results were different. There were more cosmic rays, and among them were feeble particles with only 150 mev (150 million electron volts...
...what looks like a TV camera with a conventional lens, but instead of taking light in, the "camera" shoots light out, acting like a highly educated floodlight. The source of light behind the lens is a luminescent surface that glows brightly when struck by a hair-thin beam of electrons. The electron beam scans back and forth, covering the whole surface in a small fraction of a second. The spot of light that it creates is projected on the scene by the lens, scanning it like the beam of a small searchlight. There are no moving parts except electrons...