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Proton Synchrotron

Index Proton Synchrotron

The Proton Synchrotron (PS) is a particle accelerator at CERN. [1]

46 relations: Alpha particle, Antiproton, Antiproton Accumulator, Antiproton Decelerator, Big European Bubble Chamber, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bubble chamber, CERN, CLOUD experiment, Cosmotron, Cyclotron, Deuterium, Electron, Gargamelle, Intersecting Storage Rings, Ion, John Adams (physicist), Large Electron–Positron Collider, Large Hadron Collider, Linear particle accelerator, List of types of equilibrium, Low Energy Antiproton Ring, Low Energy Ion Ring, Magnetic field, Muon, Neutral current, Neutrino, Odd Dahl, Oxygen, Particle accelerator, Particle physics, Positron, Proton, Proton Synchrotron Booster, Quadrupole magnet, Rolf Widerøe, Strong focusing, Sulfur, Super Proton Synchrotron, Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron, Swiss franc, Synchrocyclotron, Synchrotron, Weak focusing, 2 m Bubble Chamber (CERN), 81 cm Saclay Bubble Chamber.

Alpha particle

Alpha particles consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus.

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Antiproton

The antiproton,, (pronounced p-bar) is the antiparticle of the proton.

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Antiproton Accumulator

The Antiproton Accumulator (AA) was an infrastructure connected to the Proton-Antiproton Collider (SpS) — a modification of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) — at CERN.

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Antiproton Decelerator

The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) is a storage ring at the CERN laboratory near Geneva.

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Big European Bubble Chamber

The Big European Bubble Chamber (BEBC) is a large size detector formerly used to study particle physics at CERN.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, New York, on Long Island, and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base.

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Bubble chamber

A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it.

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CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN (derived from the name Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

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CLOUD experiment

Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets or CLOUD is an experiment being run at CERN by a group of researchers led by Jasper Kirkby to investigate the microphysics between galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) and aerosols under controlled conditions.

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Cosmotron

The Cosmotron was a particle accelerator, specifically a proton synchrotron, at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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Cyclotron

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1929-1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932.

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Deuterium

Deuterium (or hydrogen-2, symbol or, also known as heavy hydrogen) is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen (the other being protium, or hydrogen-1).

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Electron

The electron is a subatomic particle, symbol or, whose electric charge is negative one elementary charge.

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Gargamelle

Gargamelle was a heavy liquid bubble chamber detector in operation at CERN between 1970 and 1979.

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Intersecting Storage Rings

The ISR (standing for "Intersecting Storage Rings") was a particle accelerator at CERN.

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Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule that has a non-zero net electrical charge (its total number of electrons is not equal to its total number of protons).

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John Adams (physicist)

Sir John Bertram Adams (24 May 1920 – 3 March 1984) was an English accelerator physicist and administrator.

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Large Electron–Positron Collider

The Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) was one of the largest particle accelerators ever constructed.

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Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the most complex experimental facility ever built and the largest single machine in the world.

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Linear particle accelerator

A linear particle accelerator (often shortened to linac) is a type of particle accelerator that accelerates charged subatomic particles or ions to a high speed by subjecting them to a series of oscillating electric potentials along a linear beamline.

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List of types of equilibrium

This is a list of various types of equilibrium, the condition of a system in which all competing influences are balanced.

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Low Energy Antiproton Ring

The Low Energy Anti-Proton Ring (LEAR) was a particle accelerator at CERN which operated from 1982 until 1996.

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Low Energy Ion Ring

The Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) is a particle accelerator at CERN used to accelerate ions from the LINAC 3 to the Proton Synchrotron (PS) to provide ions for collisions within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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Magnetic field

A magnetic field is a vector field that describes the magnetic influence of electrical currents and magnetized materials.

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Muon

The muon (from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with an electric charge of −1 e and a spin of 1/2, but with a much greater mass.

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Neutral current

Weak neutral current interactions are one of the ways in which subatomic particles can interact by means of the weak force.

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Neutrino

A neutrino (denoted by the Greek letter ν) is a fermion (an elementary particle with half-integer spin) that interacts only via the weak subatomic force and gravity.

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Odd Dahl

Odd Dahl (3 November 1898 – 2 June 1994) was a Norwegian engineer and explorer.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Particle accelerator

A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to nearly light speed and to contain them in well-defined beams.

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Particle physics

Particle physics (also high energy physics) is the branch of physics that studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter and radiation.

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Positron

The positron or antielectron is the antiparticle or the antimatter counterpart of the electron.

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Proton

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Proton Synchrotron Booster

The Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB), a synchrotron, is the first and smallest circular proton accelerator in the accelerator chain at the CERN Large Hadron Collider injection complex.

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Quadrupole magnet

Quadrupole magnets, abbreviated as Q-magnets, consist of groups of four magnets laid out so that in the planar multipole expansion of the field, the dipole terms cancel and where the lowest significant terms in the field equations are quadrupole.

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Rolf Widerøe

Rolf Widerøe (11 July 1902 – 11 October 1996), was a Norwegian accelerator physicist who was the originator of many particle acceleration concepts, including the resonance accelerator and the betatron accelerator.

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Strong focusing

In accelerator physics strong focusing or alternating-gradient focusing is the principle that the net effect on a particle beam of charged particles passing through alternating field gradients is to make the beam converge.

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Sulfur

Sulfur or sulphur is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16.

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Super Proton Synchrotron

The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is a particle accelerator of the synchrotron type at CERN.

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Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron

The Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron (or SpS, also known as the Proton–Antiproton Collider) was a particle accelerator that operated at CERN from 1981 to 1991.

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Swiss franc

The franc (sign: Fr. or SFr.; Franken, French and Romansh: franc, franco; code: CHF) is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein; it is also legal tender in the Italian exclave Campione d'Italia.

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Synchrocyclotron

A synchrocyclotron is a special type of cyclotron, patented by Edwin McMillan, in which the frequency of the driving RF electric field is varied to compensate for relativistic effects as the particles' velocity begins to approach the speed of light.

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Synchrotron

A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path.

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Weak focusing

Weak focusing occurs in particle accelerators when charged particles are passing through uniform magnetic fields, causing them to move in circular paths due to the Lorentz force.

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2 m Bubble Chamber (CERN)

The 2m Bubble Chamber was a device used in conjunction with CERN’s 25 GeV Proton Synchrotron (PS) machine to study high-energy physics.

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81 cm Saclay Bubble Chamber

The 81 cm Saclay Bubble Chamber was a liquid hydrogen bubble chamber built at Saclay, in collaboration with the École Polytechnique (Orsay), to study particle physics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_Synchrotron

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