The term 'dump' in beam dump experiments is derived by analogy from the beam dumps used at particle accelerators.
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- Beam dump experiment (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://home.cern/news/news/engineering/new-beam-dump-veteran-accelerator (home.cern)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.06356 (arxiv.org)
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