particle beam device

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• Particle beam weapon — A particle beam weapon uses an ultra high energy beam of atoms or electrons (i.e., a particle beam) to damage a material target by hitting it, and thus disrupting its atomic and molecular structure. A particle beam weapon is a type of directed… …   Wikipedia

• particle beam — noun A beam of atoms, ions or subatomic particles that has been accelerated by some device and collimated by magnets and/or electrostatic lenses …   Wiktionary

• 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 — 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

• Beam dump — A beam dump is a device that absorbs a beam. This may be a beam of photons ( light ) such as a laser beam, or a beam of electrically charged particles.Optical beam dumpsAn optical beam dump is an optical element used to absorb a beam of light.… …   Wikipedia

• beam weapon — a laser beam or particle beam weapon. Also called directed energy device. * * * beam weapon noun Any weapon whose destructive force consists of a beam of energy such as subatomic particles • • • Main Entry: ↑beam * * * beam weapon, = directed… …   Useful english dictionary

• beam weapon — a laser beam or particle beam weapon. Also called directed energy device. * * * …   Universalium

• 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

• Ion beam — An ion beam is a type of particle beam consisting of ions. Ion beams have many uses in electronics manufacturing (principally ion implantation) and other industries. Today s ion beam sources are typically derived from the mercury vapor thrusters… …   Wikipedia

• colliding-beam storage ring — ▪ device also called  collider   type of cyclic particle accelerator that stores and then accelerates two counterrotating beams of charged subatomic particles (subatomic particle) before bringing them into head on collision with each other.… …   Universalium

• CLEO (particle detector) — CLEO was a general purpose particle detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), and the name of the collaboration of physicists who operated the detector. The name CLEO is not an acronym; it is short for Cleopatra and was chosen to go… …   Wikipedia