Bevatron

Bevatron
Donald Cooksey, Harold Fidler, Ernest Lawrence, William Brobeck, and Robert Thornton overlooking model of Bevatron, 1950
General properties
Accelerator typeSynchrotron
Beam typeproton
Target typefixed target
Beam properties
Maximum energy13 GeV
Physical properties
Circumference400 ft
LocationBerkeley, California
Coordinates37°52′39″N 122°15′03″W / 37.877392°N 122.250811°W / 37.877392; -122.250811
InstitutionLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dates of operation1954 - 1993

The Bevatron was a particle accelerator — specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron — at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S., which began operating in 1954.[1] The antiproton was discovered there in 1955, resulting in the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain.[2] It accelerated protons into a fixed target, and was named for its ability to impart energies of billions of eV ("billions of eV synchrotron").

  1. ^ UC Radiation Lab Document UCRL-3369, "Experiences with the BEVATRON", E.J. Lofgren, 1956.
  2. ^ "The History of Antimatter - From 1928 to 1995". CERN. Archived from the original on 2008-06-01. Retrieved 2008-05-24.(The cited page is noted as "3 of 5". The heading on the cited page is "1954: power tools".)