A particle accelerator in which the particles travel in a succession of semicircular orbits of increasing radii under the influence of a magnetic field and are accelerated at the beginning of each such orbit by traversing an electric field produced by a high-frequency generator.
Source:
PAC, 1982, 54, 1533
(Glossary of terms used in nuclear analytical chemistry (Provisional))
on page 1539
Transformed and rewritten from PDF version (entry
http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/C01509.pdf)
by: Miloslav Nic, Jiri Jirat, Bedrich Kosata, ICT Prague, Czech Republic
