Bevatron

Bevatron

Donald Cooksey, Harold Fidler, Ernest Lawrence, William Brobeck, and Robert Thornton overlooking model of Bevatron, 1950
General properties
Accelerator type	Synchrotron
Beam type	proton
Target type	fixed target
Beam properties
Maximum energy	13 TeV
Physical properties
Circumference	400 ft
Location	Berkeley, California
Coordinates	37°52′39″N 122°15′03″W / 37.877392°N 122.250811°W / 37.877392; -122.250811
Institution	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dates of operation	1954 - 1993

The Bevatron was a particle accelerator — specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron — at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S., which began operating in 1954.^[1] The antiproton was discovered there in 1955, resulting in the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain.^[2] It accelerated protons into a fixed target, and was named for its ability to impart energies of billions of eV ("billions of eV synchrotron").