• How To Build Particle Accelerator

    From michaelweberii@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 3 09:18:20 2019
    Hello,

    As a test to see if my recently setup software is working, and also to
    satisfy my curiosity. I remember looking into particle accelerators,
    and there was this one old book that claimed to describe some of the
    first in detail.

    Does anyone know what book I am talking about. That would talk about
    how-to, and how-they constructed one?

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  • From Tom Roberts@21:1/5 to michaelweberii on Mon Oct 7 10:41:20 2019
    On 10/3/19 8:18 AM, michaelweberii wrote:
    Hello,

    As a test to see if my recently setup software is working, and also to satisfy my curiosity.  I remember looking into particle accelerators,
    and there was this one old book that claimed to describe some of the
    first in detail.

    Does anyone know what book I am talking about.  That would talk about how-to, and how-they constructed one?

    Back in high school, in the mid 1960s, I remember a thick blue book of
    science fair projects, I believe from Scientific American. It included a
    Van de Graaf machine to generate high voltage, and an electron
    accelerator to stand next to it. It included construction details. The
    vacuum pump came from an old refrigerator, and the electron source was
    the filament from a vacuum tube (easy to find back then, not so easy
    today). They did not discuss at all what to do with it....

    Today I am a particle physicist with experience designing accelerators.
    I now realize that this is not at all an easy project (e.g. an old
    refrigerator pump is unlikely to give a good vacuum). I also know that
    to build one today would require a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which an individual is unlikely to obtain.

    Tom Roberts

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