Sentences with phrase «as a proton beam»

To make the reactor run, extra neutrons must be supplied from another source, such as a proton beam hitting a heavy metal target.

All patients (59) received chemotherapy as well as proton beam therapy.

Not exact matches

When the accelerator switches on again in 2015, its proton beams will be almost twice as powerful.

Electric fields inside this tunnel will accelerate two beams of protons (which belong to a class of particles called hadrons, hence the collider's name) as they go round and round, more than 10,000 times each second.

Other priorities include: upgrading the LHC, which shut down in February for two years to boost its energies from 7 TeV to 14 TeV; plans to build an International Linear Collider in Japan, to collide beams of electrons and positrons as a complement to the LHC's proton findings; and a major US project to exploit high - intensity neutrino beams generated at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

RHIC is the world's only polarized proton collider, capable of sending beams of protons around its 2.4 - mile - circumference racetrack with their internal magnetic axes (also known as spins) aligned in a chosen direction.

Proton beam therapy — a more precise form of radiotherapy — to treat the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma appears to be as safe as conventional radiotherapy with similar survival rates, according to new research published in The Lancet Oncology journal.

But getting more protons to collide is an ongoing challenge because, as one beam of these positively charged particles passes through the other, the particles» like charges make them want to move away from one another.

Proton beam therapy as a nonsurgical approach to mucosal melanoma of the head and neck: a pilot study.

Physicists have long provided doctors with tumor - fighting tools such as radiation and proton beams.

At 0.38 am CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew declared «stable beams» as two 4 TeV proton beams were brought into collision at the LHC's four interaction points.

As you point out, it will be important to spread out the proton beam so the atmospheric ionization will be efficiently dispersed.