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This device accelerates charged particles by timing their exposure to high frequency alternation of polarity. Within a vacuum chamber in a fixed magnetic field. As a result the particles move in a circular orbit whose radius increases as the energy of the particles increases. Different techniques are used to ensure stability in the motion of the particle.
Metaphor
The significance of any charged issue may be increased by suitably timing its exposure to positive and negative reinforcement in a context within which the issue can evolve along only one path.
[Features]The precision required to engender, control and contain the high-energies involved. The unusual conditions created and the large physical dimensions required to do so.
[Contrast]Some awareness of this process is indicated by the slang expression 'to whipsaw'. Features of it are used in stick-and-carrot interrogation techniques.
[Keys]Linear accelerators, synchrotrons. Storage rings. Use of superconductors.