bevatron
A thousand million electron volt proton accelerator, designed and built at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, University of California, USA.
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The Bevatron was a particle accelerator — specifically, a weak-focusing synchrotron — at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It began operating in 1954, and the antiproton was discovered there in 1955, resulting in the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain.
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