The first particle accelerators built were linear accelerators 6(linacs). These machines were constructed on the notion of producing particles in one part of a machine and then using a strong electric field to accelerate them to high energies across...

The cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by physicist Ernest O. Lawrence (1901-1958) in 1930. The first working cyclotron was built by Lawrence and an assistant, M. Stanley Livingston, at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1931....

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. Cyclotrons accelerate charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage (potential difference). A perpendicular magnetic field causes the particles to spiral almost in a circle so that they...