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storage ring
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Noun1.storage ring - container consisting of a set of magnets set in a doughnut-shaped ring around which charged particles from an accelerator can be kept circulating until they are used
atom smasher, particle accelerator, accelerator - a scientific instrument that increases the kinetic energy of charged particles
container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
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Designed to mass-produce large quantities of subatomic particles known as B mesons via collisions between electrons and positrons (the oppositely charged, antimatter counterparts of electrons), the B Factory will be installed in the existing tunnel occupied by the PEP colliding-beam storage ring.
Particle physics: Stanford wins a B Factory by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
 
 
 
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