bevatron

plural bevatrons

1. A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.

   By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme.

   1987, Armin Hermann, Lanfranco Belloni, John Krige, History of CERN: Launching the European Organization for Nuclear Research

   2 more examples

   Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron.

   1948 January, “Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets?”, in Popular Science, volume 152, number 1

   In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky, a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility.

   1990, Philip J. Regal, The anatomy of judgment