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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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