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A Heavy-Particle Accelerator

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A METHOD of overcoming the defocusing effect of the electromagnetic wave in the Walkinshaw heavy-particle accelerator1 has been suggested by Chick and Petrie2; an alternative solution to the problem is here proposed.

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  1. Walkinshaw, W., and Wyllie, N., A.E.R.E. Memo 57/WW 1948 (unpublished).

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  1. Medical Research Council Radiotherapeutic Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W.12

    J. W. GALLOP

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GALLOP, J. A Heavy-Particle Accelerator. Nature 171, 306–307 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171306a0

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