nuclear particle accelerator

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• particle accelerator — accelerator (def. 7). [1945 50] * * * Device that accelerates a beam of fast moving, electrically charged atoms (ions) or subatomic particles. Accelerators are used to study the structure of atomic nuclei (see atom) and the nature of subatomic… …   Universalium

• particle accelerator — n. Nuclear Physics ACCELERATOR (sense 3) …   English World dictionary

• particle accelerator — particle accelerators N COUNT A particle accelerator is a machine used for research in nuclear physics which can make particles that are smaller than atoms move very fast …   English dictionary

• Particle accelerator — Atom smasher redirects here. For other uses, see Atom smasher (disambiguation). A 1960s single stage 2 MeV linear Van de Graaff accelerator, here opened for maintenance A particle accelerator[1] is a device that uses electromagnetic fields to… …   Wikipedia

• Linear particle accelerator — A linear particle accelerator (also called a linac) is an electrical device for the acceleration of subatomic particles. This sort of particle accelerator has many applications, from the generation of X rays in a hospital environment, to an… …   Wikipedia

• particle accelerator — an apparatus that accelerates charged particles to such high speeds that when they bombard a target they cause nuclear reactions …   Medical dictionary

• Large Hadron Collider-The World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator — ▪ 2009       On Sept. 10, 2008, scientists of the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN), Geneva, ran the first test operation of what had been described as the largest machine and the most ambitious scientific experiment ever built… …   Universalium

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• Accelerator mass spectrometry — Infobox chemical analysis name = Accelerator mass spectrometry caption =Accelerator mass spectrometer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory acronym = AMS classification =Mass spectrometry analytes = Organic molecules Biomolecules… …   Wikipedia

• Particle physics — is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. It is also called high energy physics, because many elementary particles do not occur under normal circumstances in nature …   Wikipedia

• Particle radiation — is the radiation of energy by means of fast moving subatomic particles. Particle radiation is referred to as a particle beam if the particles are all moving in the same direction, similar to a light beam.Due to the wave particle duality, all… …   Wikipedia