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At BBC, the construction of betatrons in which electrons reached 31 or even 45 MeV was a great success. However, there were good reasons for not using betatrons to achieve higher energies, as I knew well from past experience. At the end of the War (1944), the German Air Force had appointed BBC to make preliminary plans for a 200 MeV betatron in accordance with ideas I had developed previously. I now believe it most unlikely that these proposals would ever have resulted in a machine capable of functioning.
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© 1994 Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden
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Waloschek, P. (1994). Turin — the Beta-Synchrotron. In: Waloschek, P. (eds) The Infancy of Particle Accelerators. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-05244-9_12
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