bevatron

/ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɒn/

Etymology

From BeV + -a- + -tron.

noun

  1. A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.“Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron.”