Word: synchrocyclotron
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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When the great new "synchrocyclotron" at the University of California was first turned on last fall, a powerful beam of unidentified radiation shot from its circular chamber. It slammed through a foot of lead, losing only half its strength. The physicists found that the beam was made up of high energy neutrons (nuclear particles with no electric charge). The neutrons were debris left over when speeding deuterons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen) hit a target inside the cyclotron...
Stockpiles of materials (such as super-pure graphite bricks for uranium piles) have been assembled. Plans for the great machines are already far advanced. There will be assorted cyclotrons, a synchrocyclotron, and other vast "accelerators" which are too newly designed to have names. Their powers will range to one billion volts...