Cyclotron vs. Betatron

Cyclotronnoun

An early particle accelerator in which charged particles were generated at a central source and accelerated spirally outward through a fixed magnetic field and alternating electric fields.

Cyclotronnoun

a particle accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in nuclear physics and particle physics.

Cyclotronnoun

an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles

Cyclotron

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932. A cyclotron accelerates charged particles outwards from the center of a flat cylindrical vacuum chamber along a spiral path.

Betatronnoun

(physics) A form of cyclotron used to accelerate electrons to high speed.

Betatronnoun

a type of particle accelerator which accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux.

Betatronnoun

accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux

Betatron

A betatron is a type of cyclic particle accelerator. It is essentially a transformer with a torus-shaped vacuum tube as its secondary coil.