An alternating electric field of frequency is applied across the dees (radius = ) of a cyclotron that is being used to accelerate protons (mass = ). The operating magnetic field used in the cyclotron and the kinetic energy () of the proton beam, produced by it, are given by:
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In a cyclotron, resonance occurs when the frequency of the alternating electric field () matches the cyclotron frequency (). According to the sources, the cyclotron frequency is . For a proton with charge , we have . Rearranging this for the operating magnetic field gives . The maximum velocity () of the proton is attained at the radius of the dees (), where . Since , we get . The kinetic energy is .
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