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Title: LRL Accelerators
The 184-Inch Synchrocyclotron

Author: Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

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_LRL Accelerators_

THE 184-INCH SYNCHROCYCLOTRON

LAWRENCE RADIATION LABORATORY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA

Pub. No. 2d

5M
June 1964

[Illustration: Synchrocyclotron Building]

_Contents_

Page

THE 184-INCH SYNCHROCYCLOTRON 2

PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION OF A CONVENTIONAL CYCLOTRON 3

THE PRINCIPLE OF PHASE STABILITY 6

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE 184-INCH SYNCHROCYCLOTRON 8

Magnet 8

Vacuum System 9

Ion Source 10

Radiofrequency System 10

Internal Targets and Beam Extractor 12

CYCLOTRON EXPERIMENTS 15

Nuclear Physics 15

Biophysics 18

Nuclear Chemistry 19

BIBLIOGRAPHY 20

APPENDIX 21

THE 184-INCH SYNCHROCYCLOTRON

His success with the 60-inch cyclotron in 1939 led Dr. E. O. Lawrence to
propose a much more powerful accelerator, one which could produce new
types of nuclear rearrangements and even create particles. Grants
totaling $1,225,000 permitted wo