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The team produced the arsenic-73 using FRIB's ReA accelerator, which they operated in a standalone configuration rather than relying on the main linear accelerator.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 14, 2026

It’s not your local vet that has a $2 million linear accelerator that aims radiation at cancer tumors with pinpoint accuracy.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

In a free electron laser, a linear accelerator, or linac, shoots a beam of high-energy electrons into a string of complex magnets called undulators.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 18, 2023

I had to lie down with a linear accelerator, so I got a lot of chances to read.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2019

Essentially, he was uncoiling the cyclotron that years earlier he had conceived by twisting Rolf Wideroe’s linear accelerator into a spiral.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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