linear accelerator

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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

The world’s most powerful ion source, the linear accelerator can fire any nucleus—from hydrogen’s single proton to uranium atoms’ massive core—into targets to produce new, unstable nuclei.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2021

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

Merle Tuve, who was still struggling to produce high-energy particles with his obstreperous Tesla coil, saw little practical application for Lawrence’s curved variation on a linear accelerator.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik