Bevatron
an accelerator in which protons are raised to energies of several billion electron-volts by modulating the frequency of the accelerating voltage.
historical examples
on-line data-acquisition systems in nuclear physics, 1969 h. w. fulbright et al.
noun
a proton synchrotron at the university of california
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