charged-particle storage ring

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• Storage ring — The 216 m circumference storage ring dominates this image of the interior of the Australian Synchrotron facility. In the middle of the storage ring is the booster ring and linac A storage ring is a type of circular particle accelerator in… …   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

• storage ring — noun container consisting of a set of magnets set in a doughnut shaped ring around which charged particles from an accelerator can be kept circulating until they are used • Hypernyms: ↑container • Part Holonyms: ↑accelerator, ↑particle… …   Useful english dictionary

• 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

• particle accelerator — noun a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles • Syn: ↑accelerator, ↑atom smasher • Hypernyms: ↑scientific instrument • Hyponyms: ↑betatron, ↑induction accelerator …   Useful english dictionary

• 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

• subatomic particle — or elementary particle Any of various self contained units of matter or energy. Discovery of the electron in 1897 and of the atomic nucleus in 1911 established that the atom is actually a composite of a cloud of electrons surrounding a tiny but… …   Universalium

• W particle — Physics. either of two types of charged intermediate vector bosons, one having a positive charge and the other a negative charge. Symbols: W+, W [1970 75; appar. for weak] * * * Electrically charged subatomic particle that transmits the weak… …   Universalium

• Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage — HERA ( Hadron Elektron Ringanlage , or Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator) was a particle accelerator at DESY in Hamburg. Its operation started in 1992. At HERA, electrons or positrons were collided with protons at a center of mass energy of 318… …   Wikipedia

• Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …   Universalium