Abstract
DURING the past few weeks, a betatron which has been under construction by the British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., has come into operation, and we give some preliminary account of its properties. The magnet and coil arrangement is shown in Fig. 1. The main features of the machine are :
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WILKINSON, K., TUCK, J. & RETTIE, R. A 16-MeV. Betatron. Nature 161, 472–473 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161472a0
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