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    New York, United States. The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron was built on the innovative concept of the alternating gradient, or strong-focusing principle...
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    and deployed on the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. Courant and Snyder found that the net effect of alternating the field gradient was that both the vertical...
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    magnets. The CERN PS (Proton Synchrotron, 1959) and the Brookhaven National Laboratory AGS (Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, 1960) were the first next-generation...
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    retired in 1966, after it was superseded in 1960 by the new Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS). The AGS was used in research that resulted in three...
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    1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory that proved that certain...
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  • (fixed-field, like in a cyclotron) and the use of alternating gradient strong focusing (as in a synchrotron). In all circular accelerators, magnetic fields...
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    theorized. The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) at Brookhaven (1960–) was the first large synchrotron with alternating gradient, "strong focusing"...
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  • electron-positron VEPP-2 (first collisions in 1965). The idea of using alternating gradient synchrotron (AGS) technology to build storage rings for a proton-proton...
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    Courant and Hartland Snyder in their 1953 paper, "Theory of the Alternating-Gradient Synchrotron". They are also widely referred to in accelerator physics literature...
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  • product prefix used by models of the Game Boy Advance SP Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, a particle accelerator Annualized Geothermal Solar, a passive...
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    nuclei were reported by a group of American physicists at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1995, CERN announced...
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    antideuteron was first produced in 1965 at the Proton Synchrotron at CERN and the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory. A complete...
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    the Booster synchrotron to 100 MeV per nucleon, which injects the projectile now with Q = +77 into the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), before...
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  • cosmic rays. List of accelerator mass spectrometry facilities List of synchrotron radiation facilities "Building the cyclotron". Retrieved August 22, 2018...
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  • Courant, E. D.; Snyder, H. S. (Jan 1958). "Theory of the alternating-gradient synchrotron" (PDF). Annals of Physics. 3 (1): 360–408. Bibcode:2000AnPhy...
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    National Laboratory's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) and uranium beams on uranium targets at CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron. High-energy nuclear...
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    muons in the decays of charged pions and kaons. They used the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) at Brookhaven, and obtained a number of convincing events...
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    H. Christenson et al. in proton–uranium collisions at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. The Drell–Yan process is studied both in fixed-target and...
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  • used for b-physics experiments. In 1996, it was moved to the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where it was used...
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    cost of a conventional synchrotron is the magnets. The PS was the first accelerator at CERN that made use of the alternating-gradient principle, also called...
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  • Courant, Ernest D.; Snyder, Hartland (Jan 1958). "Theory of the alternating-gradient synchrotron". Annals of Physics. 3 (1): 1–48. Bibcode:1958AnPhy...3......
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    Courant, E.D.; Snyder, H.S. (April 2000). "Theory of the Alternating-Gradient Synchrotron". Annals of Physics. 3 (1–2): 360–408. Bibcode:2000AnPhy.281...
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    et al. (1963) in a 20 inch hydrogen bubble chamber at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) in Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY while...
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  • Alternating Gradient Synchrotron Personnel Dosimetry of Very-High Energy Radiations Some Dosimetry Problems of the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS)...
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  • design of the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, collaborating with John Blewett. He was later working on the proposal for the National Synchrotron Light Source...
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  • accelerators Courant, E. D.; Snyder, H. S. (Jan 1958). "Theory of the alternating-gradient synchrotron" (PDF). Annals of Physics. 3 (1): 360–408. Bibcode:2000AnPhy...
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  • pions (CP = +1) in an experiment performed in 1964 at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at the Brookhaven laboratory. As explained in an earlier section...
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    was conducted at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Alternating Gradient Synchrotron; the experiment was known as (BNL) Muon E821 experiment, but...
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    Sau Lan Wu was a postdoc at the time took advantage of the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron accelerator at Brookhaven National Laboratory with high-intensity...
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  • utilize the existing Brookhaven particle accelerator called the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS). The project had been budgeted at approximately $145...
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