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cyclotron

[sahy-kluh-tron, sik-luh-] / ˈsaɪ kləˌtrɒn, ˈsɪk lə- /


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The centre in London is huge, with a vast cyclotron buried five stories underground and powering the proton beam 24 hours a day, Dr Hiley said.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

Looking up can make you feel you are within a cyclotron, sucked up like the figures you are watching.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Within the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute, scientists are producing At-211 using the K150 cyclotron with support from the U.S.

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

From 1982 to 2020, the K-500 cyclotron produced beams of atomic nuclei ranging from hydrogen to uranium for experiments in nuclear physics, relying on superconducting magnets to confine the particles.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 12, 2023

If the cyclotron development had been, let us say, a year earlier, I repeat, there is every reason to believe that some of these discoveries referred to would have been made using cyclotrons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik