storage ring
Americannoun
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a device for storing charged particles fed from an accelerator, consisting of a set of magnets placed in a ring and adjusted to keep the particles circulating until they are used.
Etymology
Origin of storage ring
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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To measure the muon’s magnetic moment, physicists at the Muon g−2 experiment begin by funneling a beam of muons into a storage ring around the 50-foot magnet.
From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2023
Germany donated a big-ticket component: the injector that sends particles into the main storage ring.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 28, 2016
Engineers pump replacements into the synchrotron's storage ring to maintain the beams through the night.
From Nature • Mar. 28, 2016
Physicists and engineers had planned to begin moving the experiment's delicate storage ring by truck and barge this weekend, but the move has been delayed by 1 week due to inclement weather in New York.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 14, 2013
O'Neill has impressive credentials, among them his conception of the colliding-beam storage ring principle, which has been used in the design of some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators.
From Time Magazine Archive
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