单词 | cosmotron |
释义 | cosmotronn. A particle accelerator; spec. the proton-synchrotron, designed to produce 3000 MeV protons, which was completed in 1952 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S.A. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > particle accelerator > [noun] > types of > proton accelerator bevatron1947 proton accelerator1947 proton synchrotron1947 cosmotron1949 1949 Newsweek 7 Feb. 29 Foundations have been laid for a giant ‘cosmotron’ of record voltage. 1950 Times 20 Dec. 5/4 A cosmotron is an experimental instrument by which a magnetic field of high intensity accelerates particles torn from the nuclei of atoms. 1956 Nature 10 Mar. 470/2 The particle current has steadily decreased as the energy has increased—milliamperes for the 1940 cyclotron, micro~amperes for the 1943 synchrocyclotron, millimicroamperes for the present cosmotron and bevatron. 1967 E. U. Condon & H. Odishaw Handbk. Physics (ed. 2) ix. ix. 250/2 The radius of the proton orbit in the Cosmotron is 30 ft. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1949 |
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