Bevatron vs Betatron - What's the difference?
bevatron | betatron |
A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
* 1948 , Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets?'' (in ''Popular Science , volume 152, number 1, January 1948)
* 1987 , Armin Hermann, Lanfranco Belloni, John Krige, History of CERN: Launching the European Organization for Nuclear Research
* 1990 , Philip J. Regal, The anatomy of judgment
(physics) A form of cyclotron used to accelerate electrons to high speed.
As nouns the difference between bevatron and betatron
is that bevatron is a particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts while betatron is a form of cyclotron used to accelerate electrons to high speed.bevatron
English
Noun
(en noun)- Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron .
- By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme.
- In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky , a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility.
