superbeam

Noun

superbeam (plural superbeams)

1. (rare) A very large or powerful beam (in any sense).
   • 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
   • 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 -...