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  1. bevatronnoun

    a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts

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  1. bevatronnoun

    A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.

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  1. Bevatron

    The Bevatron was a particle accelerator — specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron — at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S., which began operating in 1954. The antiproton was discovered there in 1955, resulting in the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain. It accelerated protons into a fixed target, and was named for its ability to impart energies of billions of eV. (Billions of eV Synchrotron.)

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  1. bevatron

    A bevatron is a particle accelerator used in nuclear physics to accelerate particles to extremely high speeds and energy levels, specifically to billions of electron volts (BeV), hence the name. It was developed in the mid-20th century and one of the most known bevatrons was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

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  1. Bevatron

    The Bevatron was a particle accelerator — specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron — at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.A., which began operating in 1954. The antiproton was discovered there in 1955, resulting in the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain. It accelerated protons into a fixed target, and was named for its ability to impart energies of billions of eV.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bevatron in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bevatron in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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