storage ring
- noun
- Specialized
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- The scientists observed the behavior of particles as they circulated in the storage ring at the particle accelerator.
- storage ring beam
- electron storage ring
- circulating in a storage ring
Examples
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In 1973, the SPEAR storage ring was ready to receive electrons and positrons from the two-mile linac.
Academic text (1995) -
The future of backscattered gamma-ray beams depends on the availability of storage rings with electron energies in the region of several GeV.
Academic text (2005) -
That's where the big antiproton storage ring is.
Fiction book (1999) -
Following the early successes at Adone, ladon beams were built at several other storage rings.
Academic text (2005) -
That's an important first: No other electron storage ring has ever achieved longitudinal polarization.
Academic text (1994) -
And so the muons are stored by this magnetic field and they go round and round in the storage ring and they decay and they decay at random times.
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The recycler is an 8-GEV storage ring built during the 1996-2001 shutdown.
Academic text (2003) -
X-rays were produced using a bending magnet on the DORIS (double ring store) III storage ring.
Academic text (2018) -
For longer-lived fragments, one can observe isomer and ground-state properties by injecting the fragments into a storage ring.
Academic text (2006) -
The use of heavy-ion storage rings has contributed greatly to an improved understanding of processes in low-temperature plasmas, astrochemistry, and aeronomy.
Academic text (2002)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'storage' (a place/system for holding things) and 'ring' (a circular formation) allow a learner to infer a general concept of a circular structure used for holding or keeping something, so the broad idea is compositional. However, the specific technical meaning — a doughnut-shaped magnet structure used to circulate charged particles in accelerators — is domain-specific and not predictable from the constituents alone, so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Storage ring comes from two simple words, storage meaning 'to store' and ring meaning a circular track. A doughnut-shaped magnetic ring 'stores' tiny charged particles while they 'keep moving', so the term means the device that holds particles circulating at high speed.
