Linac

Word LINAC
Character 5
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Pronunciations /ˈlɪnæk/

Definitions and meanings of "Linac"

What do we mean by linac?

A linear particle accelerator. noun

Ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path noun

A linear particle accelerator.

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The word "linac" in example sentences

I can’t help but note that the word linac appears in the name of the new machine. ❋ JoAnne (2008)

Iotron's technology is characterized as linac and was specifically singled out by the Canadian Medical Isotope review panel based on the following factors: ❋ Unknown (2009)

After getting checked in, I would drop my pants, lie down on a table, and get zapped from three different, precisely calibrated angles by a machine called a linac that rotated around me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unlike a conventional tube, however, the “linac” imbues massive amounts of energy into the electrons, pushing them to dizzying velocities before smashing them against the metal surface. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

Since the linac could only focus its killer beam on local sites, it would have to be a local, not a systemic, cancer. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

Or Kaplan in a white coat standing next to the linac at Stanford, its 5-million-volt probe just inches from his nose. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

LCLS will use the last third of the linac to create tightly-focused accelerated bunches of free electrons (here, free means not bound to atoms). ❋ JoAnne (2006)

Bunch compressors are being installed in the linac to squeeze the electrons into 20 micrometer sized, intense, pulsed packets. ❋ JoAnne (2006)

I would be remiss if I did not mention this … Well, first of all, we are tickled pink that our linac will continue to produce groundbreaking scientific results. ❋ JoAnne (2006)

These electron bunches then leave the linac and enter a series of undulator magnets. ❋ JoAnne (2006)

Using the polarized 90 GeV electron beam from the SLAC linac, E-158 measured Moller scattering, which is electrons scattering off of electrons to form electrons + more electrons. ❋ JoAnne (2005)

I was spelunking through the history files for an early experimental high energy electron beam linac that ran at Michael Reese from about 1957 to 1986. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"They built an extractor, refinery, and linac tube before they gave up," Telthorst cut him off sharply. ❋ Zahn, Timothy (2001)

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