 Donald Cooksey, Harold Fidler, Ernest Lawrence, William Brobeck, and Robert Thornton overlooking model of Bevatron, 1950 | |
| General properties | |
|---|---|
| Accelerator type | Synchrotron |
| Beam type | proton |
| Target type | fixed target |
| Beam properties | |
| Maximum energy | 13 GeV |
| Physical properties | |
| Circumference | 400 ft |
| Location | Berkeley, California |
| Coordinates | 37°52′39″N 122°15′03″W / 37.877392°N 122.250811°W |
| Institution | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Dates of operation | 1954 - 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").
- ^ UC Radiation Lab Document UCRL-3369, "Experiences with the BEVATRON", E.J. Lofgren, 1956.
- ^ "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".)