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proton accelerator

[′prō‚tän ak′sel·ə‚rād·ər]

(nucleonics)

A particle accelerator which accelerates protons to high energies, as opposed to one which accelerates heavier ions or electrons.

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5 shows the model of the source of quasi-monochromatic x-ray radiation based on a proton accelerator fitted with an X Ray-optical system.

Design of a source of quasi-monochromatic x-ray radiation on the basis of a proton accelerator, fitted with an X ray-optical system

The development of a compact proton accelerator could dramatically reduce the cost of building proton therapy centers.

Advancing the frontiers in cancer research: technologies are being adapted to characterize cancer cells and provide new treatments

The goal of J-Parc's high-power proton accelerator is to generate a MW-class high-power proton beam by the summer of 2007.

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To do this, researchers at RAL and IPCR will add superconducting muon generation equipment to be built by the Japanese to the existing British Isis pulse proton accelerator. IPCR officials estimate that the new equipment, with its 15-m-long beam line, will cost $12.5 million to build.

British, Japanese to study muons

Produced in a low-energy proton accelerator at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, bursts of antiprotons emerge with a kinetic energy of 6 million electron-volts, traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

Protons and antiprotons held in the balance

2- The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKI) will lead the process for construction of Turkish proton accelerator facility.

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"It's the first proton accelerator that ever has been designed specifically for treating patients," he says.

Chiseling away at tumors with protons

The SSC will be a 40-trillion electron-volt proton accelerator, the most energetic such machine ever built.

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One of several meetings planned around the theme of the construction of the proposed Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), which would be the most powerful proton accelerator and largest physics laboratory ever built, the symposium seemed to be part of an attempt to build an intellectual and political coalition of an unprecedented sort.

The Prairie Home accelerator: a gathering of folks from all over considers the meaning and impact of the proposed Superconducting Super Collider