bevatron
- n a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts
- On Charter Hill above Berkeley, Calif, a strange and monstrous machine, the AEC's bevatron, was slowly coming to life last week.
- When the chamber was bombarded by extremely powerful particles from the Berkeley bevatron, some of the tracks looked as if they were made by mu mesons, which are knocked out of .
- The great bevatron at Berkeley creates antiprotons (protons with negative charges, in fair quantities.