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In his book 'Einstein's Universe' Nigel Calder wrote (16, BBC, 1979) -
"The world's most powerful accelerator of electrons is at Stanford in California...electrons emerge...about 40,000 times 'heavier' than when they started."
Have gamma factors in excess of that amount been generated?
How is the relativistic mass of an accelerated particle determined?
I read somewhere that the mass of a particle accelerated in a cyclotron is determined in accordance with the amount of energy that has to be applied laterally to the particle in order to maintain its circular trajectory but what is the process in relation to straight-line acceleration?
"The world's most powerful accelerator of electrons is at Stanford in California...electrons emerge...about 40,000 times 'heavier' than when they started."
Have gamma factors in excess of that amount been generated?
How is the relativistic mass of an accelerated particle determined?
I read somewhere that the mass of a particle accelerated in a cyclotron is determined in accordance with the amount of energy that has to be applied laterally to the particle in order to maintain its circular trajectory but what is the process in relation to straight-line acceleration?