Pelletron
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of Pelletron. alt-of, alternative
"While one of the halls is used as the beam hall for experiments with the heavy ion beams from the pelletron accelerator, it is planned to install a superconducting linear accelerator in the other beam hall to further boost the energy of the heavy ions from the pelletron accelerator."
- 2 A type of electrostatic particle accelerator that builds a charge of high voltage using a charging chain of short conductive tubes called pellets connected by links made of insulating material, as opposed to using a belt or rectifier stack.
"An extremely important advantage of using a Pelletron driven FEL as a power source is its ability to synchronize the radiation of all the cavities by operating all the FEL's in a single cavity."
Example
More examples"While one of the halls is used as the beam hall for experiments with the heavy ion beams from the pelletron accelerator, it is planned to install a superconducting linear accelerator in the other beam hall to further boost the energy of the heavy ions from the pelletron accelerator."
Etymology
Registered trademark of the National Electrostatics Corporation (and later the Pelletron Corporation), from pellet + -tron, for the pellets in the charging chain.
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