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Also Known As	linear resonance accelerator • linac

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

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William Webster Hansen

American physicist