bunchlet

Noun

bunchlet (plural bunchlets)

1. A small bunch.
   • She wore a gray tailor-made jacket over a white silk blouse that looked frilly and festive because of a kind of bow between the lapels, to one of which was pinned a bunchlet of violets.2012, Vladimir Nabokov, Look at the Harlequins!
   • 'It's just as well to know,' intoned Sid, selecting quite studiedly a banana, his fingers darting back for a bunchlet of grapes.2013, Joseph Connolly, It Can't Go On
2. A very short burst of subatomic particles in the beam of a particle accelerator.
   • For the TS design assumed, the field of an incident bunchlet on the holes is not only coupled to the output but is also scattered back into the beam pipe, exciting waves in both directions.1993, J Rossbach, High Energy Accelerators, page 892
   • In the CLIC design the drive linac uses four trains spaced by 2.84 ns of 43 bunchlets (1 cm bunchlet spacing, 40 nC each) to produce via the transfer structures 30 GHz power pulses of 40 MW for the main linac.1994, G. Carron, L. Thorndahl, “Progress with the CLIC Transfer Structures (CTS)”, in Christine Petit-jean-genaz, Vic Suller, editors, European Particle Accelerator Conference (Epac 94)