Pelletron

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The 2.5 MeV Pelletron accelerator SIRIUS at the École polytechnique.

Etymology

Registered trademark of the National Electrostatics Corporation (and later the Pelletron Corporation), from pellet +‎ -tron, for the pellets in the charging chain.

Noun

Pelletron (plural Pelletrons)

  1. A type of electrostatic particle accelerator that builds a charge of high voltage using a charging chain of short conductive tubes called pellets connected by links made of insulating material, as opposed to using a belt or rectifier stack.
    • 1987, Eric R. Lindstrom, Louise S. Taylor, Proceedings of the 1987 IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference:
      An extremely important advantage of using a Pelletron driven FEL as a power source is its ability to synchronize the radiation of all the cavities by operating all the FEL's in a single cavity.
    • 1990, P. Marin, EPAC 90: 2nd European Particle Accelerator Conference, →ISBN:
      The Pelletron was manufactured by the National Electrostatics Corporation (NEC) and placed into routine operation in 1982.
    • 2015, INDIA 2015, →ISBN:
      To further increase the beam energy of Pelletron, a superconducting linear accelerator (LINAC) is being set up.