synchrocyclotron
English
Etymology
synchro- + cyclotron
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪŋkɹəʊˈsaɪklətɹɒn/
Noun
synchrocyclotron (plural synchrocyclotrons)
- A particle accelerator like a cyclotron, but which operates at variable frequency to account for the particles gaining energy, allowing for greater energies to be achieved.
- 2004: The synchrocyclotron was able to accelerate protons to sufficient energies that collisions with nuclei produce pions, the lightest particles that, we now know, are made from a single quark and an antiquark. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 50)
Translations
particle accelerator
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French
Noun
synchrocyclotron m (plural synchrocyclotrons)
- synchrocyclotron
Further reading
- “synchrocyclotron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.