Bevatron
Bevatron was the name of the first large synchrotron , a particle accelerator for protons .
Ernest Lawrence built the Bevatron in 1954 at the University of Berkeley ( California ). The name of the proton accelerator comes from its maximum energy of 6.2 BeV (billion electron volts), German (and internationally common today) 6.2 GeV . A large number of heavy elements that do not occur in nature could be produced with this research facility. In 1955 the antiproton was detected for the first time with the Bevatron , later the antineutron . It was later combined with the Super HILAC (a linear accelerator for heavy ions) to form the Bevalac and shut down in 1993. It was dismantled between 2009 and 2011.
Web links
Commons : Bevatron - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Pictures of the Bevatron
- History of the Bevatron. Berkeley Lab's, accessed June 19, 2016 (video on Youtube).
- The Bevatron - Discovery of the Antiproton. (pdf; 822 kB) CERN, accessed on June 19, 2016 .