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    The Proton Synchrotron (PS, sometimes also referred to as CPS) is a particle accelerator at CERN. It is CERN's first synchrotron, beginning its operation...
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    although in English). The first proton synchrotron was designed by Sir Marcus Oliphant and built in 1952. Large synchrotrons usually have a linear accelerator...
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    The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN. It is housed in a circular tunnel, 6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi)...
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    The Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) is the first and smallest circular proton accelerator (a synchrotron) in the accelerator chain at the CERN injection...
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    The Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron (SppS), operated 1981–1991. A modification of Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to operate as a proton-antiproton...
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    Bevatron was a particle accelerator — specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron — located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S., which began...
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    U-70 (Russian: У-70) is a proton synchrotron with a final energy of 70 GeV, built in 1967 at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino (near Serpukhov...
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    The Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron (or SppS, also known as the Proton–Antiproton Collider) was a particle accelerator that operated at CERN from 1981...
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    2 GeV and injected into the Proton Synchrotron (PS), where they are accelerated to 26 GeV. Finally, the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is used to increase...
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  • experiments at the CERN Proton Synchrotron (PS) facility since its commissioning in 1959. The PS was CERN's first synchrotron and the world's highest...
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    an infrastructure connected to the Proton–Antiproton Collider (SppS) – a modification of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) – at CERN. The AA was built...
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    discovery of the W and Z gauge bosons in proton–antiproton collisions at the converted Super Proton Synchrotron. In 1999, Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus...
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    in the world, slightly higher than its 28 GeV sister machine, the Proton Synchrotron at CERN, the European laboratory for high-energy physics. While 21st...
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    many years. The first large proton synchrotron was the Cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory, which accelerated protons to about 3 GeV (1953–1968)...
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    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2002 and 2004, the Super Proton Synchrotron team at CERN reported turning lead nuclei into gold nuclei through...
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    experiment that ran at CERN's Proton-Antiproton Collider (SppS), a modification of the one-beam Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The data was recorded between...
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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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    first run of protons and switched to accelerating lead-ion beams. Each lead nucleus contains 82 protons, and the LHC accelerates each proton to an energy...
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    high-energy physics experiment at the Proton-Antiproton Collider (SppS) — a modification of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) — at CERN. The experiment ran...
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  • 1103/PhysRevLett.114.191803. PMID 26024162. S2CID 1353272. Adams, John. "400 GeV Proton Synchrotron". Excertp from the CERN Annual Report 1976. CERN. Archived from the...
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    due to an LHC magnet quench incident. On 23 November 2009, the first protonproton collisions occurred at the LHC and were recorded by ATLAS, at a relatively...
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    be installed in an empty tunnel- TI18 that links the LHC and Super Proton Synchrotron, 480m away from the ATLAS experiment interaction point in the fast...
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    with a beam from the Proton Synchrotron (PS) between 1970 and 1976, before the detector was moved to the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). In 1979 an irreparable...
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    Cocconi (1914–2008) was an Italian physicist who was director of the Proton Synchrotron at CERN in Geneva. He is known for his work in particle physics and...
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    Design Report. This is the point in the centre of the detector at which proton-proton collisions occur between the two counter-rotating beams of the LHC....
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    experiment employed the 440 GeV proton beam, with 3 × 10 11 {\displaystyle 3\times 10^{11}} protons, from the Super Proton Synchrotron, and irradiated a particle...
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    of antihydrogen. Antiprotons for the ring were created by the CERN Proton Synchrotron via the Antiproton Collector and the Antiproton Accumulator (AA)....
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    significantly above that of previous circular colliders, such as the Super Proton Synchrotron, the Tevatron, and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The FCC project...
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    multi-touch screens as early as 1976 for the controls of the Super Proton Synchrotron. Capacitive multi-touch displays were popularized by Apple's iPhone...
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    contains a proton synchrotron fed by a linear accelerator; short (<500ns) pulses of 1.63×1013 1.6 GeV protons are extracted from the synchrotron 25 times...
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