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    An electrostatic particle accelerator is a particle accelerator in which charged particles are accelerated to a high energy by a static high voltage potential...
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    electrodynamic (or electromagnetic) accelerators. Electrostatic particle accelerators use static electric fields to accelerate particles. The most common types are...
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    teach electrostatics; larger ones are displayed in some science museums. The Van de Graaff generator was originally developed as a particle accelerator for...
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    A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to linac) is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high...
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    A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932...
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  • A particle beam is a stream of charged or neutral particles other than photons. In particle accelerators, these particles can move with a velocity close...
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  • Electronvolt (category Particle physics)
    unit of measure through its usefulness in electrostatic particle accelerator sciences, because a particle with electric charge q gains an energy E =...
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  • A list of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed...
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  • Accelerator physics is a branch of applied physics, concerned with designing, building and operating particle accelerators. As such, it can be described...
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    in 1932 used this circuit design to power their particle accelerator, performing the first accelerator-induced nuclear disintegration in history. They...
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    Pelletron (category Particle accelerators)
    publisher (link) F. Hinterberger (2006). "Electrostatic accelerators". CAS - CERN Accelerator School: Small Accelerators. doi:10.5170/CERN-2006-012.95. Henry...
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    high-energy particle physics. Fermilab's Main Injector, two miles (3.3 km) in circumference, is the laboratory's most powerful particle accelerator. The accelerator...
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    Dynamitron (category Particle accelerators)
    The Dynamitron is an electrostatic particle accelerator invented by Marshal Cleland in 1956 at Washington University in St. Louis and manufactured by Electron...
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    sources and neon-sign transformers. It can also be called an electrostatic particle accelerator. The fusor was originally conceived by Philo T. Farnsworth...
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  • Wisconsin–Madison. There, he participated in the development of electrostatic particle accelerators for use in nuclear physics research, the first devices to...
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  • rumoured to have directed-energy weapon capabilities. The KALI is a particle accelerator. It emits powerful pulses of electrons. Other components in the machine...
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    an electrostatic "tandem accelerator". This is a large nuclear particle accelerator based on the principle of a tandem van de Graaff accelerator operating...
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    The Koffler particle accelerator of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, was built in 1976. The building became a symbol of the institute...
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  • The National Electrostatics Corporation (NEC), a company based in Wisconsin, USA, produces particle accelerators and associated equipment. The firm incorporated...
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    Electron (redirect from Beta minus particle)
    beam welding, lithography and particle accelerators that generate synchrotron radiation. Their charge and wave-particle duality make electrons indispensable...
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  • amounts to following the trajectories of charged particles in self-consistent electromagnetic (or electrostatic) fields computed on a fixed mesh. For many types...
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    consisted of firing an electron beam (from an electron gun, an electrostatic particle accelerator) at a nickel crystal, perpendicular to the surface of the...
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  • An electrostatic lens is a device that assists in the transport of charged particles. For instance, it can guide electrons emitted from a sample to an...
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  • Polymer scattering with neutrons Electrostatic nuclear accelerator Linear induction accelerator Betatron Linear particle accelerator Cyclotron Synchrotron...
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  • Accélérateur Grand Louvre d'analyse élémentaire (category Particle accelerators)
    is the only particle accelerator solely dedicated to the study of cultural heritage. AGLAE is a Pelletron 2MeV electrostatic accelerator built by an American...
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  • An electrostatic septum is a dipolar electric field device used in particle accelerators to inject or extract a particle beam into or from a synchrotron...
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  • a DC Comics superhero Westinghouse Atom Smasher, a former electrostatic nuclear accelerator Phantomsmasher, American experimental band formerly known...
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    research and co-founded the High Voltage Engineering Corporation, a particle accelerator manufacturer. He was the paternal uncle of President Donald Trump...
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  • generator, an electrostatic generator Van der Graaf Generator, English progressive rock band Van de Graaff accelerator, a type of particle accelerator "Van Der...
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    boson is a very massive particle and also decays almost immediately when created, only a very high-energy particle accelerator can observe and record it...
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