Topic summary
Proton beam
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Charged particle beam.
Common types
- Electron beam such as in a scanning electron microscope, in accelerators such as the Large Electron–Positron Collider, synchrotron light sources, or in cathode ray tubes
- Proton beam, such as the beams used in proton therapy, at colliders such as the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider, or for proton beam writing in lithography.
- Ion beams, such as at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider or the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.