Word: synchroton
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...Sealed off when the synchroton is operating, behind the white walls are what look like the entrails of some enormous mechanical serpent - a tangled chain of equipment, most prominently brightly colored magnets, some weighing 5 tons. Through the middle of this runs a vacuum tube 216 m long within which bunches of electrons zoom at 1 million laps a second - almost the speed of light. It's when they are forced by the magnets to bend and change direction that the streams of subatomic particles - which travel the equivalent of 50 times to the sun and back each day - emit...
About one month from today, the world's most powerful electron synchroton will begin conducting in Cambridge the fastest particle acceleration ever achieved...
...important discovery in 1952 Ivy Livingston and two other physicists which paved the way for an accelerator of this size. The principle of alternating gradient, or strong focusing, made possible the Brookhaven proton synchroton, which produces up to 30 billion electron volts...
...most powerful particle accelerator (or atom smasher) was at Geneva, Switzerland, generating a beam of protons with up to 28 Bev (billion electron-volts) of energy. Last week the energy championship came back to the U.S. At Brookhaven National Lab oratory, Long Island, the new alternating gradient synchroton, which scientists call AGS, was kicked up to full power for the first time, generating a proton beam that stayed steady at 30 Bev and hovered for short periods as high as 31 Bev, accelerating particles at rates only a fraction below the 186,300 miles-per-second speed of light. Eventually...
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