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Synchrotron

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A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The strength of the magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed path increases during the accelerating process, being synchronized to the increasing kinetic energy of the particles.1

The synchrotron is one of the first accelerator concepts to enable the construction of big facilities, since bending, beam focusing and acceleration can be separated. The most powerful modern particle accelerators use versions of the synchrotron design. The largest synchrotron-type accelerator, also the largest particle accelerator in the world, is the 27-kilometre-circumference (17 mi) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, completed in 2008 by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).2 It can accelerate beams of protons to an energy of 7 teraelectronvolts (TeV or 10 eV).

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  1. Chao, A. W.; Mess, K. H.; Tigner, M.; et al., eds. (2013). Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering (2nd ed.). World Scientific. doi:10.1142/8543. ISBN 978-981-4417-17-4. S2CID 108427390. ↩

  2. “The Large Hadron Collider”. CERN. 2023-12-15. Retrieved 2024-01-15. ↩

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