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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