Sentences with phrase «in cyclotrons»

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To find these elements he and colleagues at Livermore and Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research collided ions (charged atoms) with other, target atoms in a cyclotron, a machine that accelerates the nuclei to high speeds with a magnetic field.

Initially more promising data had come from studies of plutonium produced, microgram by microgram, in a cyclotron.

Not exact matches

Lawrence's brother, John, a doctor at Yale, used one of the elements from his brother's cyclotron, radioactive phosphorus, to examine metabolism in mice.

In his earlier work at Berkeley, he gained intimate knowledge of the behavior of protons, using the cyclotron to measure their penetration into various materials.

In a 1946 paper in the journal Radiology, Wilson proposed that contemporary cyclotrons had almost become capable of energizing protons that could tackle deep - seated cancerIn a 1946 paper in the journal Radiology, Wilson proposed that contemporary cyclotrons had almost become capable of energizing protons that could tackle deep - seated cancerin the journal Radiology, Wilson proposed that contemporary cyclotrons had almost become capable of energizing protons that could tackle deep - seated cancers.

Lawrence won the award in 1939 for inventing the cyclotron, a particle accelerator.

Suit invited himself to a cyclotron at Harvard, and in 1973 he persuaded its operators to let him use it on patients five days a week.

The scientists used Brookhaven's Cyclotron — a small accelerator dedicated to isotope production — to produce the nitrogen radiotracer, which was then introduced to the soil in a stream of air.

Michael Thoennessen, a professor and associate director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NCSL) at Michigan State University in East Lansing believes that mentors can help young scientists by modeling the costs and rewards of persistence.

Murthy discloses that he owns stock in General Electric, Mallinckrodt and Cardinal Health, which are involved in radioactive isotope and cyclotron production He has consulted for Bracco Diagnostics and Ionetix which are also involved in radioactive isotope production.

Another helpful technology was a superconducting magnet cyclotron — a million - dollar drum - shaped device that sends molecules racing around in circles.

«We need something totally out of the box,» says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and co-spokesperson for the DAEδALUS collaboration, a proposal to generate beams of subatomic neutrinos using linked cyclotrons.

In this plan, near - stationary protons would be dumped in the center of a small cyclotron and accelerated by magnetic fields in spirals until they reached the cyclotron's outer edgIn this plan, near - stationary protons would be dumped in the center of a small cyclotron and accelerated by magnetic fields in spirals until they reached the cyclotron's outer edgin the center of a small cyclotron and accelerated by magnetic fields in spirals until they reached the cyclotron's outer edgin spirals until they reached the cyclotron's outer edge.

«We all started together working at the MRC Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital [UK] in late 1980s,» Dolan says.

The idea capturing physicists» attention in the run - up to the meeting is correspondingly modest and thrifty: a low - energy but high - intensity accelerator called a cyclotron.

At the end of a visit to the University of California at Berkeley in the 1930s, Segre took back to Sicily with him a few bits of an old cyclotron, no longer needed, that had been exposed to radiation during the lifetime of the machine.

TRIUMF — the acronym is derived from TRI-University Meson Facility, although eight are now universities involved in the project — employs about 350 scientists, engineers, and technicians and houses up to 200 visiting scientists on any given day when the cyclotron is operating.

Invented the first cyclotron, an atom smasher that could fit in the palm of a hand.

Discovered in the form of six atoms produced in Russia's U400 cyclotron in April 2010, it is the fifth element added in the past decade.

We used Fourier - transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to show that a sulfilimine bond -LRB-- S = N --RRB- crosslinks hydroxylysine - 211 and methionine - 93 of adjoining protomers, a bond not previously found in biomolecules.

In a series of famous experiments, Boyle used the air pump, which has been called «the cyclotron of its age,» to test basic scientific principles such as the relationship between a gas's pressure and its volume.

Built of wire and sealing wax in 1930 by a 29 - year - old physicist named Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, as it came to be called, had an accelerating chamber measuring just 4 inches across — about the size of a saucer.

In this project — «PROBE: PROton Beam Extension for Imaging and Therapy» project — a prototype will be built of a novel high - frequency linac that can boost the energy of protons from the 250 Mega-electron volts (MeV) available from conventional medical cyclotrons to 350 MeV, sufficient for imaging all patients.

The quake also shifted and may have damaged a cyclotron in the physics department.

The concept of an ADS is almost as old as nuclear power itself: American physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron accelerator, suggested the use of particle beams in conjunction with a reactor during the 1950s.

In a paper published in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University researchers from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics and the College of Education used an MSU program as a case study for why these programs are key to training tomorrow's generation of scientistIn a paper published in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University researchers from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics and the College of Education used an MSU program as a case study for why these programs are key to training tomorrow's generation of scientistin the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University researchers from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics and the College of Education used an MSU program as a case study for why these programs are key to training tomorrow's generation of scientists.

We thank Lisa Muench, Colleen Shea, and Youwen Xu for radiopharmaceutical preparation and quality control, Pauline Carter and Barbara Hubbard for subject care and protocol oversight, Karen Apelskog for protocol coordination, Michael Schueller for cyclotron operations, and Ruben Baler for assistance in manuscript preparation.

From the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (M.M.M., A.M.O.), the Impaired Consciousness Study Group, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge (M.R.C.), and the Division of Academic Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital (J.D.P.)-- all in Cambridge, United Kingdom; and the Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liege (A.V., M.B., S.L.), and the Departments of Neurology (S.L., M.B.) and Neuroradiology (L.T.), University Hospital of Liege, Liege; and Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussels (A.V., S.L., M.B.)-- all in Belgium.

If the cyclotron line is from circling electrons, in contrast, then the magnetic field strength around the neutron star would not be exceptionally strong, and thus the field is probably not the reason these stars break the Eddington limit.

After ruling out all other possibilities, they figured out that the dip was from a phenomenon called cyclotron resonance scattering, which occurs when charged particles — either positively charged protons or negatively charged electrons — circle around in a magnetic field.

«If the cyclotron line is from protons, then we know that these magnetic fields around the neutron star are extremely strong and may in fact be helping to breaking the Eddington limit,» says Brightman.

Cyclotron resonance scattering creates telltale signatures in a star's spectrum of light and the presence of these patterns, called cyclotron lines, can provide information about the strength of the star's magnetic field — but only if the cause of the lines, whether it be protons or electrons, Cyclotron resonance scattering creates telltale signatures in a star's spectrum of light and the presence of these patterns, called cyclotron lines, can provide information about the strength of the star's magnetic field — but only if the cause of the lines, whether it be protons or electrons, cyclotron lines, can provide information about the strength of the star's magnetic field — but only if the cause of the lines, whether it be protons or electrons, is known.

A type of wave that can exist in a plasma (such as the region of space above Earth's aurora), which vibrates at an ion cyclotron frequency that corresponds to the ion type present (oxygen, helium, hydrogen, etc.).

To further address the mystery, the researchers are planning to acquire more X-ray data on the ULX in M51 and look for more cyclotron lines in other ULXs.

Following a stint in the Air Force, I was approached by a physicist at Washington University in St. Louis named Michel Ter - Pogossian, who pioneered the use of short - lived radioactive cyclotron - produced isotopes in biology and medicine, which to most people was completely novel.

They visualized interference fringes and the pattern of flow of electron waves from a quantum point contact, made an imaging electron wave interferometer, and imaged magnetic focusing in GaAs / AlGaAs, and they have imaged the electron cyclotron orbit in graphene / hBN structures.

As Maxwell explains in the video, the original proton pack consists of a cyclotron, which is composed of two electrodes that induce the particle to spiral outwards from the center, accelerated by a rapidly varying electric field.

But Jerry Nickles and Jonathan Engle [the past and present directors of the campus PET Cyclotron Laboratory] are the best in the world at making chemically pure manganese chloride with determined radiological activity.

In a matter of months that gave way to the notion that maybe we could use these cyclotron isotopes to create an imaging device that could essentially do autoradiography of the human brain non-invasively.

Placed into operation in 1962, the ORIC was one of the world's first cyclotrons to exploit azimuthally varying field focusing.

We use a combination of experimental studies of collisional activation and dissociation of complex molecules in a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer with RRKM modeling to determine the internal energy distribution of excited ions and the energetics and dynamics of dissociation for the ion of interest.

Especially from GX301 - 2, the cyclotron resonance feature is detected at about 37 keV, and width of 3... ▽ More We present an INTEGRAL observation of the Cen - Crux region in order to search the electron cyclotron resonance scattering features from the X-ray binary pulsars.

Abstract: We present an INTEGRAL observation of the Cen - Crux region in order to search the electron cyclotron resonance scattering features from the X-ray binary pulsars.

In particular the influence of the electron cyclotron maser instability will be investigated.

In a sequence of experiments carried out between 14th July 2003 and 10th August 2003 by the scientists from the ORNL, JINR, and LLNL at the JINR in Moscow, americium - 243 atoms were bombarded with calcium - 48 ions using a cyclotron [4In a sequence of experiments carried out between 14th July 2003 and 10th August 2003 by the scientists from the ORNL, JINR, and LLNL at the JINR in Moscow, americium - 243 atoms were bombarded with calcium - 48 ions using a cyclotron [4in Moscow, americium - 243 atoms were bombarded with calcium - 48 ions using a cyclotron [4].

1942 Sept 13The S - 1 Executive Committee recommends building a pilot plant based on Ernest O. Lawrence's cyclotrons to separate uranium isotopes in Tennessee.

If you ever get therapy in a hospital that requires a cyclotron or any delivery device that allows positrons or any anti-particle to be used in surgery, my father - in - law was the brains behind it.

Eschenbach in turn has taken to beating the drums for Duke cyclotron jock turned numerologist Nick Scaffeta, whose last DIY climate science paper referenced six of own his previous efforts, which is about a half dozen more citations than they have received elsewhere.

Traveled extensively throughout the world and earned recognition for testing and installing approximately 80 Cyclotron units in 20 countries; provided comprehensive engineering and technical support for equipment at customer sites, performed acceptance testing of systems, and collected / documented accurate Cyclotron characterization data.