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  2. Westinghouse Atom Smasher - Wikipedia

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    With the discovery of the nucleus being fresh, much research was being done on how to commercialize it. The use of the particle accelerator allowed scientists to understand better how atoms, atomic nuclei, and nucleons are held together. [15] The Westinghouse atom smasher was the first particle accelerator built to be industrialized. [16]

  3. Donald William Kerst - Wikipedia

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    Donald William Kerst was born in Galena, Illinois November 1, 1911, [1] the son of Herman Samuel Kerst and Lillian E Wetz. [2] He entered the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1934, and then his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1937, [3] writing his thesis on "The Development of Electrostatic Generators in Air Pressure and Applications to Excitation ...

  4. Ernest Walton - Wikipedia

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    Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics who first split the atom. [1] He is best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, the Cockcroft–Walton generator.

  5. Cockcroft–Walton generator - Wikipedia

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    The Cockcroft–Walton (CW) generator, or multiplier, is an electric circuit that generates a high DC voltage from a low-voltage AC. [1] It was named after the British and Irish physicists John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, who in 1932 used this circuit design to power their particle accelerator, performing the first artificial nuclear disintegration in history. [2]

  6. List of accelerators in particle physics - Wikipedia

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    Fermitron was an accelerator sketched by Enrico Fermi on a notepad in the 1940s proposing an accelerator in stable orbit around the Earth. The undulator radiation collider [7] is a design for an accelerator with a center-of-mass energy around the GUT scale. It would be light-weeks across and require the construction of a Dyson swarm around the Sun.

  7. Upgraded particle accelerator could reveal new details about ...

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    Faster, better, stronger. A new phase of operations at the Large Hadron Collider — the world’s largest particle accelerator — is scheduled to start in a few weeks, just a day after the 10th ...

  8. Particle accelerator - Wikipedia

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    A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and energies to contain them in well-defined beams. [1] [2] Small accelerators are used for fundamental research in particle physics. Accelerators are also used as synchrotron light sources for the study of condensed matter physics.

  9. Boyce McDaniel - Wikipedia

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    After the end of particle physics experiments 20 years later, CESR is now used as a test facility of damping rings for a future international linear collider. [13] In 1981, McDaniel developed a proposal for a new mile-diameter electron-positron collider called CSER II, but could not obtain the necessary $200 million in funding for it. [ 15 ]