superbeam

English

Etymology

super- +‎ beam

Noun

superbeam (plural superbeams)

1. (rare) A very large or powerful beam (in any sense).
   • 2003, Vitaly Kudryavtsev, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter: York, UK, 2-6 September 2002‎^[1], World Scientific, →ISBN, page 597:

     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.

   • 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 - Proceedings Of The 11th Conference On Icatpp-11‎^[2], St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 422:

     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.

   • 2012, Vernon Barger, Danny Marfatia, Kerry Whisnant, The Physics of Neutrinos‎^[3], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     Alternatively, having detectors at two different on-axis distances from the same superbeam can provide multiple measurements that help to remove parameter degeneracies.