CERN's first accelerator - the Synchrocyclotron - starts up
05/11/1957 AD built
At a UNESCO meeting in Paris in December 1951, there was a discussion on finding a solution to have a medium-energy accelerator for the soon-to-be-formed European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
The synchrocyclotron was proposed as a solution to bridge the gap before the 28-GeV Proton Synchrotron was completed. In 1952, Cornelis Bakker led the group to design and construct the synchrocyclotron named Synchro-Cyclotron (SC) at CERN. The design of the Synchro-Cyclotron with 15.7 metres (52 ft) in circumference started in 1953. The construction started in 1954 and it achieved 600 MeV proton acceleration in August 1957, with the experimental program started in April 1958.
Subjects Who or What built?
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CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) The acronym CERN origina...
Objects To Whom or What was built?
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Particle accelerator A machine that uses elec...
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