linear accelerator in English

noun
1
an accelerator in which particles travel in straight lines, not in closed orbits.
Last year researchers used a linear accelerator to generate the most powerful T-ray beam ever made.
noun
    linac

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1. Internally cooled linear accelerator and drift tubes

2. Medical device, namely clinical linear accelerator for use in radiosurgery

3. H-mode/drift-tube linear accelerator, and its designing method

4. We used a 20-MeV linear accelerator with two parallel opposed fields.

5. Traveling wave linear accelerator comprising a frequency controller for interleaved multi-energy operation

6. A phase switch and a standing wave linear accelerator with the phase switch

7. For example, the Stanford linear accelerator can accelerate an electron to roughly 51 GeV.

8. –Heavy ions from the linear accelerator were directed into the old Bevatron for continued acceleration

9. Radiation was administered to the posterior pole with a 8 MV-photon beam from a linear accelerator.

10. Method and device for measuring the location of a particle beam present in packets in a linear accelerator

11. Electrons are accelerated to an energy of up to 17.5 GeV by a 2.1 km (1.3 mi) long linear accelerator with superconducting RF-cavities.

12. Generally, in the radiopharmaceutical industry, enriched water (H 218 O) is bombarded with hydrogen ions in either a cyclotron or linear accelerator, creating fluorine-18.

13. In 1976, Ting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he shared with Burton Richter of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, for the discovery of the J/ψ meson nuclear particle.