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A cyclotron consists of two D-shaped regions known as dees. In each dee there is a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane of the page. In the gap separating the dees there is a uniform electric field pointing from one dee to the other. When a charge is released from rest in the gap it is accelerated by the electric field and carried into one of the dees. The magnetic field in the dee causes the charge to follow a half-circle that carries it back to the gap.

While the charge is in the dee the electric field in the gap is reversed, so the charge is once again accelerated across the gap. The cycle continues with the magnetic field in the dees continually bringing the charge back to the gap. Every time the charge crosses the gap it picks up speed. This causes the half-circles in the dees to increase in radius, and eventually the charge emerges from the cyclotron at high speed.

The first cyclotron was manufactured by Ernest Lawrence , of the University of California, Barkley  who started operating it in 1932, though others had been working along similar lines at the time. The first European cyclotron was founded in Leningrad in the physics department of the Radium Institute.

In India large superconduction cyclotron was installed in
Variable energy cyclotron centre [VECC] in Kolkata in 1980, which was 6th of its kind in world. This variable energy cyclotron provide our nuclear physicists with a quantum jump in the accelerated particle energies for frontline experiments at per with their international counterparts. High level scientific activity goes on at the Centre for International collaborations in the areas of high energy physics experiments at large accelerators in other parts of the world. Our scientists and engineers construct large experimental equipments for such experiments. Those experiments are also used extensively by the international scientific community. Our scientists have earned prestige both in the experimental as well as theoretical research in the field of  Quark Glucon Plasma on international scene
 

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