![]() Donald Cooksey, Harold Fidler, Ernest Lawrence, William Brobeck, and Robert Thornton overlooking model of Bevatron, 1950 | |
General properties | |
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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 |
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").
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