bevatron

noun

1. A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.

   “Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron.”

   “By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme.”

   “In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky, a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility.”