Examples of cyclotron in the following topics:
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- Cyclotrons, magnetrons, and mass spectrometers represent practical technological applications of electromagnetic fields.
- To achieve this, the voltage frequency must match the particle's cyclotron resonance frequency,
- The particles accelerated by the cyclotron can be used in particle therapy to treat some types of cancer.
- Additionally, cyclotrons are a good source of high-energy beams for nuclear physics experiments.
- Sketch of a particle being accelerated in a cyclotron, and being ejected through a beamline.
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- Here, r, called the gyroradius or cyclotron radius, is the radius of curvature of the path of a charged particle with mass m and charge q, moving at a speed v perpendicular to a magnetic field of strength B.
- A particle experiencing circular motion due to a uniform magnetic field is termed to be in a cyclotron resonance.
- The term comes from the name of a cyclic particle accelerator called a cyclotron, showed in .
- The cyclotron frequency (or, equivalently, gyrofrequency) is the number of cycles a particle completes around its circular circuit every second and can be found by solving for v above and substituting in the circulation frequency so that
- The cyclotron frequency is trivially given in radians per second by
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- The increase of relativistic momentum and energy is not only precisely measured but also necessary to understand the behavior of cyclotrons and synchrotron, which accelerate particles to near the speed of light.
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