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    A betatron is a type of cyclic particle accelerator for electrons. It consists of a torus-shaped vacuum chamber with an electron source. Circling the torus...
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  • Betatron oscillations are the fast transverse oscillations of a charged particle in various focusing systems: linear accelerators, storage rings, transfer...
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    particle acceleration concepts, including the resonance accelerator and the betatron accelerator. Widerøe was born in Kristiania (now Oslo) in 1902 as a son...
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    A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around...
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    physics) and plasma physics. He is most notable for his development of the betatron, a novel type of particle accelerator used to accelerate electrons. A graduate...
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  • Lawrence W. Jones and Kent M. Terwilliger at the University of Michigan used betatron acceleration and was operational in early 1956. That fall, the prototype...
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    made in 1942 by Donald Kerst. His initial betatron reached energies of 2.3 MeV, while subsequent betatrons achieved 300 MeV. In 1947, synchrotron radiation...
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    patent applications in Germany for the linear accelerator, cyclotron, and betatron. In these applications, Szilárd became the first person to discuss the...
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    conceived and built the first operational linear particle accelerator, the betatron, as well as the cyclotron. Because the target of the particle beams of...
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    Pomeranchuk, I. (1 June 1944). "On the Maximal Energy Attainable in a Betatron". Physical Review. 65 (11–12). American Physical Society: 343. Bibcode:1944PhRv...
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    voltage (RF) frequency, frf 5.5-6.1 MHz HF multiplicity (harmonic number) 30 Betatron tune, νx = νy 9.75-9.85 intensity of the beam of protons per pulse, Np...
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    source of synchrotron radiation, but to provide additional damping of betatron and synchrotron oscillations to create a beam storage system. A wiggler...
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  • physics to medical and industrial applications. Medical applications include betatron and free-electron light sources for diagnostics or radiation therapy and...
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    scale-model submarine sails punching up through the ice; and possessed the only betatron on the West Coast for examination into the structures of heavy objects...
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  • established in 1959 by H. M. Skarsgard. Early work centered on research with a Betatron. STOR-1M is Canada's first tokamak built in 1983. In 1987 STOR-1M was the...
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  • generation are: high-harmonic generation stimulated Thomson scattering Betatron radiation Applications of coherent X-ray radiation include coherent diffraction...
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    field induced by a time-varying magnetic field for acceleration—like the betatron. The particle beam passes through a series of ring-shaped ferrite cores...
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    megavoltage radiation, including the 1930s Van de Graaff generator and betatron. Orthovoltage X-rays External beam radiotherapy Podgorsak, E B (2005)....
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  • Illinois. where he worked with Prof. Donald William Kerst, inventor of the betatron. Returning once again to Brazil, Damy accepted an assistant professorship...
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    Laboratory in Virology in 1965, the Artificial Kidney Laboratory in 1976, the Betatron ICMR Centre for Advanced Research in Virology in 1978, the National AIDS...
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    and may be used in industrial radiography or research; these include betatrons, linear accelerators (linacs), and synchrotrons. For gamma rays, radioactive...
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    which cross the null, however, trace not cyclotron or circular orbits but betatron or figure-eight-like orbits, as the orbit's curvature changes direction...
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  • generator Proton 0.7 MeV First to artificially split the nucleus (Lithium) Betatron Siemens-Schuckertwerke, Germany 1935 Circular Electron 1.8 MeV Proof of...
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    his sardonic mood is on him, he wonders whether the synchrotrons, the betatrons, the cosmotrons, and all the other contrivances physicists have lately...
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    Amézquita JA, Bustamante ME (2014). Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec Herbs to Betatrons. University of Texas Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-4773-0636-9. Lanning JT...
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    betatron, critically studying an article of Donald Kerst. In the following, Touschek, Widerøe, R. Kollath and G. Schumann worked on a 15 MeV betatron...
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  • campaigns, including the failure of the world blackmail attempt using the Betatron Bomb, the creation of the Overkill Horn (designed to detonate all nuclear...
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  • accelerator concepts (excluding compact structures like the cyclotron or betatron), these are applied by dedicated electromagnets with different properties...
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    15 kt iodine-131 venting detected, 2.2 MCi (81 PBq) Tested an external betatron initiator that shot x-rays into the core, which induced neutrons by photofission...
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    resonant acceleration. The third line of research was the invention of the betatron by Rolf Wideroe in 1923. With the discovery of the nucleus being fresh...
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