Bevatron
Donald Cooksey, Harold Fidler, Ernest Lawrence, William Brobeck, and Robert Thornton overlooking model of Bevatron, 1950 | |
| General properties | |
|---|---|
| Accelerator type | Synchrotron |
| Beam type | proton |
| Target type | fixed target |
| Beam properties | |
| Maximum energy | 13 GeV |
| Physical properties | |
| Circumference | 400 ft |
| Location | Berkeley, California |
| Coordinates | 37°52′39″N 122°15′03″W / 37.877392°N 122.250811°W |
| Institution | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Dates of operation | 1954 - 1993 |
The Bevatron was a particle accelerator — specifically, a weak-focusing proton synchrotron — located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S., which began operations in 1954. The antiproton was discovered there in 1955, resulting in the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain. It accelerated protons into a fixed target, and was named for its ability to impart energies of billions of eV ("billions of eV synchrotron").