tevatron

[ tev-uh-tron ]

noun

1. an accelerator in which protons or antiprotons are raised to energies of a few trillion electron-volts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tevatron¹

1980–85; TeV + -atron, as in betatron, bevatron

Example Sentences

The hint that the W boson might be extra-hefty came from an analysis of data from a particle detector called D0, which was fed by the now-defunct Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

From Science Magazine

In May, physicists with the Collider Detector at Fermilab, or C.D.F., reported on a 10-year effort to measure the mass of this particle, based on some 4 million W bosons harvested from collisions in Fermilab’s Tevatron, which was the world’s most powerful collider until the Large Hadron Collider was built.

From New York Times

The new result even contradicts the CDF’s previous result, published in 2012, which was based on the first quarter of the current data set, notes Dmitri Denisov, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who worked on D0, a rival Tevatron detector.

From Science Magazine

The CDF experiment, located along the loop, sought signs of W bosons in these collisions from 2002 until the Tevatron shut down.

From Scientific American

He arrived in 2013, 2 years after its flagship atom smasher, the Tevatron, shut down, ceding the 2012 discovery of the famous Higgs boson to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

From Science Magazine