Round 20: Tossup 18
In January 2020, Zihe Rao and Haitao Yang worked at a Shanghai facility named for these devices to determine the structure of the COVID-19 main protease. The first use of a technique in which “kickers” condense the transverse momentum distribution was in a setup named for two “intersecting” examples of these devices. A modified one of these devices that employed stochastic cooling was used in the UA1 experiment. Extremely bright so-called “light sources” are based on a type of these devices called storage rings. CERN operates both “proton” and “super proton” examples of these devices used as injectors for the LHC. Accelerating relativistic particles emit a type of highly-beamed bremsstrahlung radiation named for these devices. For 10 points, what accelerators with a time-varying magnetic field were inspired by the cyclotron? ■END■
ANSWER: synchrotrons [accept synchrotron radiation or synchrotron light sources or Proton Synchrotron or Super Proton Synchrotron or Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron or Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility; accept storage rings or Intersecting Storage Rings until “storage rings” is read; prompt on particle colliders; prompt on particle accelerators until “accelerating” is read]
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