linear accelerator

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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 an XFEL, a linear accelerator, or linac, shoots electrons through magnets that shake the particles sideways and make them emit x-rays.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 20, 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

Interrupting his studies, he spent the period from 1958 to 1961 at a linear accelerator laboratory in Paris.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2018

One of the first was Don Gow, a former military engineer who had worked with Alvarez on the linear accelerator and the MTA.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik