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The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has a 3.2-kilometre linear electron accelerator, the longest linear accelerator in the world.

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Also Known As	linac • linear resonance accelerator

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The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has a 3.2-kilometre linear electron accelerator, the longest linear accelerator in the world.

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traveling-wave linear accelerator tandem accelerator standing-wave linear accelerator constant-voltage accelerator voltage multiplier side-coupled cavity accelerator drift tube electrostatic generator Cockcroft-Walton generator Van de Graaff generator colliding-beam storage ring

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William Webster Hansen

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