Word: synchrotron
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Working with Brookhaven's powerful Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, they slammed a stream of antiprotons into a bubble chamber full of liquid hydrogen. As the antiprotons hit the stationary hydrogen nuclei-which were also protons-they annihilated each other, giving off energy and filling the 20-in. chamber with a sudden splash of new, extremely short-lived particles...
...million low-energy (12.5 Bev) machine with a high-intensity beam that will contain 100 times as many protons as Brookhaven's present 33-Bev synchrotron. In one year, this massive beam will perform experiments that would require 100 years on Brookhaven's present equipment...
...Institute and the off-campus Argonne National Laboratory, which it runs for the AEC on a $79 million budget (paid by AEC), compared with $68 million for the university itself. To help fill the Midwest gap in research and defense contracts. Beadle counts on a new 12.5 billion-volt synchrotron at Argonne to lure physicists. Last month NASA began building a new space lab adjoining the Fermi Institute...
Brookhaven-Syracuse University study last summer in Geneva. Last week experimental teams on opposite coasts of the U.S. confirmed its existence. They used two of the world's largest atom smashers, Brookhaven's Synchrotron and Berkeley's Bevatron, to fire negatively charged K mesons into a hydrogen bubble chamber. After the mesons collided with hydrogen nuclei, the scientists found two K mesons that were the decay products of an even more ephemeral particle. It has a life span of just 2/1 0,000th of a billionth of a billionth of a second-or just long enough...
Astronomers believe that this vast flow of radio energy, which they call synchrotron radiation, comes from high-speed electrons moving through clouds of turbulent gas that have been expelled from the galaxy. Best estimates are that when those clouds were freshly expelled from the strongest radio galaxies, they contained 5 times 10^60 ergs. This jolt equals the amount of energy that would be released if all the matter in 2,500,000 suns were totally converted into energy. Such total conversion is theoretically possible, but astrophysicists do not know of any way that it could take place...