cosmotron
/ˈkɑzmətrɑn/
noun
- A large particle accelerator used in physics to speed up protons to very high energies.
- The cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory was one of the first high-energy particle accelerators.
- The cosmotron helped physicists discover new particles in the 1950s.
- Scientists used the cosmotron to study the behavior of protons at nearly the speed of light.