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superbeam en · NOUN

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Etymology

From super- + beam.

Meanings

1. (rare) A very large or powerful beam (in any sense).
   • Alternatively, having detectors at two different on-axis distances from the same superbeam can provide multiple measurements that help to remove parameter degeneracies. 2012, Vernon Barger, Danny Marfatia, Kerry Whisnant, The Physics of Neutrinos, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 86:
   • This would be the first example of "superbeam", that is an LBL accelerator experiment that will use v beams of very high intensities, never reached before. 2010, Andrea Gaddi, Claude Leroy, Larry Price, Michele Barone, Pier-giorgio Rancoita, Randal C Ruchti, Astroparticle, Particle And Space Physics, Detectors And Medical Physics Applications - Proceedings Of The 11th Conference On Icatpp-11, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 422:
   • Superbeams are thus a technological extrapolation of conventional beams, with a proton beam intensity close to the mechanical stability limit of the target at a typical thermal power of 0.7 MW to MW. 2003, Vitaly Kudryavtsev, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter: York, UK, 2-6 September 2002, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 597:

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