Bevatron - BEVALAC

BEVALAC

The Bevatron received a new lease on life in 1971, when it was joined to the SuperHILAC linear accelerator as an injector for heavy ions. The combination was conceived by Albert Ghiorso, who named it the Bevalac. It could accelerate any nuclei in the periodic table to relativistic energies. It was finally decommissioned in 1993.

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