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    betatron

    A device used to accelerate electrons (beta particles) to energies of some ten MeV. The electrons run in an annular vacuum tube and are kept on this orbit by a magnetic field array. They are accelerated by electromagnetic induction (transformer principle).


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    Source: European Nuclear Society



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