proton synchrotron

noun

, Physics.

1. a synchrotron used for accelerating protons.

Word History and Origins

Origin of proton synchrotron¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Dr Stuart is a director of the Diamond Light Source, a huge machine called a proton synchrotron that is located near Oxford.

From Economist

The project was given the thumbs-up by CERN's SPS and Proton Synchrotron Experiments Committee at a meeting in mid-January, and it must next be approved by the lab's Research Board when it meets at the end of February.

From Science Magazine

The neutrinos were produced by the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN, along with a lot of other sub-atomic particles.

From Scientific American

At CERN's fourmile, $400 million super proton synchrotron, Rubbia devised a method of creating supercollisions among subatomic particles that would, he predicted, produce the carriers of the weak force.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a demonstration, he reports in Science, he recently set up two detectors near Argonne's 12 billion-electron-volt proton synchrotron.

From Time Magazine Archive