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Also known as BEVALAC

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").

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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
synchrotron
Located in
Berkeley
Image
Bevatron interior (4675235347).jpg
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Commons category
Bevatron
start of work period
1954-00-00
end of work period
1993-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2012-00-00
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