linear accelerator

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ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path

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At 2.0 miles (about 3.2 kilometers) long, the accelerator is the longest linear accelerator in the world, and is claimed to be "the world's most straight object." Source: Internet

For example, the Stanford linear accelerator can accelerate an electron to roughly 51 GeV. Source: Internet

In addition to the nuclear reactor, Szilard submitted patent applications for a linear accelerator in 1928, and a cyclotron in 1929. Source: Internet

FLASH FLASH (Free-electron -LASer in Hamburg) is a superconducting linear accelerator with a free electron laser for radiation in the vacuum-ultraviolet and soft X-ray range of the spectrum. Source: Internet

Hence einsteinium-254 was used as a target in the attempted synthesis of ununennium (element 119) in 1985 by bombarding it with calcium-48 ions at the superHILAC linear accelerator at Berkeley, California. Source: Internet

In the early 1990s, an independent electron injector was built for this storage ring, allowing it to operate independently of the main linear accelerator. Source: Internet

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