Bevatron
Sign in to saveThe Bevatron ( ) was a particle accelerator – specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron – located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S., which began operations in 1954. The antiproton was discovered there in 1955, resulting in the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain. It accelerated protons into a fixed target, and was named for its ability to impart energies of billions of eV ("billions of eV synchrotron").
Key facts
- Particle accelerator.name
- Bevatron
- Particle accelerator.image
- Dr. Donald Cooksey, Dr. Harold Fidler, Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence, William Brobeck, and Professor Robert Thornton overlooking model of Bevatron.jpg
- Particle accelerator.caption
- Donald Cooksey, Harold Fidler, Ernest Lawrence, William Brobeck, and Robert Thornton overlooking model of Bevatron, 1950
- Particle accelerator.type
- Synchrotron
- Particle accelerator.beam
- proton
- Particle accelerator.target
- fixed target
- Particle accelerator.energy
- 13 GeV
- Particle accelerator.location
- Berkeley, California
- Particle accelerator.institution
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Particle accelerator.dates
- 1954 - 1993
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8 sectionsContents
- Antiprotons
- Requirements and design
- The liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber
- Bevalac
- End of life
- See also
- References
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The Bevatron ( ) was a particle accelerator – specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron – located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S., which began operations in 1954. The antiproton was discovered there in 1955, resulting in the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain. It accelerated protons into a fixed target, and was named for its ability to impart energies of billions of eV ("billions of eV synchrotron").
==Antiprotons== When the Bevatron was designed, scientists strongly suspected—but had not yet confirmed—that every particle had a corresponding antiparticle with an opposite charge but otherwise identical properties, a concept known as charge symmetry.