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The Cyclotron Kids: Teenagers building an Atom Smasher?!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

TheCyclotronKids asked: thecyclotronkids.org The Cyclotron Kids (Heidi Baumgartner, Peter Heuer, and German Diagama) are building a cyclotron, a type of particle accelerator that they will use to speed up protons to high velocities. When the protons collide with something, they can produce new particles out of the energy that was ...