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particle beam [′pärd·ə·kəl ‚bēm] (physics) A concentrated, nearly unidirectional flow of particles. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At that time a decision will be made whether to add the particle beam weapon, which will have a range of about several hundred kilometers, to the nation's arsenal. Scientists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, have unmasked an unlikely culprit - the moon - in accounting for small, but significant fluctuations in the energy of particle beams circulating in the Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider. The complex operation of its accelerators requires numerous operators and monitoring devices to simultaneously control vacuum, particle beam signals, beam-steering and focusing magnets, and many other beam and system parameters. |
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