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considered this new principle was discovered. The problem was simple enough. A cheaper machine could be built if the amplitudes of the free and forced oscillations of the accelerating particles could be decreased in some way so that the vacuum chamber size and the cross-section of the magnet ring could be reduced. The simplest way to reduce the amplitude of the free oscillations is to increase the frequency by increasing the restoring force, and although this is easy to achieve in the vertical direction by increasing the magnetic field gradient, the condition for horizontal stability is violated if n exceeds unity.
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It became increasingly clear that if further progress was to be made in high energy nuclear physics by experiments using artificially accelerated particles some new principle must be found that would cheapen the cost per GeV. It was lucky for CERN that just at the time a European machine was being
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by alternating the sign of the gradient of the magnetic field. The structure of the magnet is no longer uniform round the ring with a constant gradient but is broken up into sectors whose gradient is alternatively positive and
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Beth, R. A.; Lasky, C. (1958). "The Brookhaven Alternating Gradient Synchrotron: Construction of a massive nuclear research machine requires ideas, men, and methods from many fields".
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accelerators provide other ions to the AGS Booster. The AGS Booster then accelerates these particles for injection into the AGS. The AGS Booster also provides particle beams to the
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to energies that were previously unachievable. The AGS became the world's premiere accelerator when it reached its design energy of 33 billion electron volts (GeV) on July 29, 1960.
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Until 1968, the AGS was the highest energy accelerator in the world, slightly higher than its 28 GeV sister machine, the
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The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron was built on the innovative concept of the alternating gradient, or
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Brookhaven National Laboratory: Alternating Gradient Synchrotron web page
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Inward Bound: of matter and forces in the physical world
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Brookhaven National Laboratory
synchrotron
proton
RHIC
Upton, New York
40°52′27″N 72°52′49″W / 40.87430103°N 72.880168°W / 40.87430103; -72.880168
Brookhaven National Laboratory
particle accelerator
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Long Island
New York
strong-focusing principle
protons
Proton Synchrotron
CERN
Nobel Prizes
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
proton beams
Gold
linear particle accelerator
Tandem Van de Graaff
NASA Space Radiation Laboratory
Christofilos
Courant
Livingston
Snyder
betatron oscillations
Nobel Prizes in Physics
Samuel C. C. Ting

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