SYNCHROTRON RADIATION


Meaning of SYNCHROTRON RADIATION in English

Function: noun

Etymology: from its having been first observed in a synchrotron

Date: 1956

: radiation emitted by high-energy charged relativistic particles (as electrons) when they are accelerated by a magnetic field (as in a nebula)

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