Accelerator Definition and 215 Threads

I have an idea which I cannot take to the production stage myself. I am sending it by way of getting contacts (electronic engineers, manufacturers or investors) for helping me with a 3 dimensional circuit manufacturing idea (already well worked out). Here goes: We already have turbojet...

Hi everyone, I am wondering why large particle accelerators are not arranged in space around a planet or a moon via multiple satellites? The radius is much larger, hence weaker magnetic fields required. Also there is natural vacuum up there. Any ideas why this hasn't been done? Isn't the...

http://www.uslhc.us/The_US_and_the_LHC/Collaborating_Institutions/Institutions_by_Project#alice" A comprehensive list of all US Universities participating in the LHC Project, institutions marked with a blue arrow (47 total) have contributed to design/installation of hardware and software to...

How much energy is a accelerator using when keeping particles orbits (by constant speed): for example: 2.99999997 E8 m/s (or topspeed) 2.98000000 E8 m/s 2.97000000 E8 m/s 2.80000000 E8 m/s Please mention the energy consumption in % relative to the top-speed (I believe it is -...

I am looking to get detailed particle accelerator schematics. Does anyone know where I can find This? I am very interested in this stuff, and these cheesy youtube videos are not cutting it. Is every cubic centimeter of the LHC documented somewhere? is every cubic centimeter of any...

Recently in Russia they published a book about a specific accelerator of ions. The ions are accelerated by electrons. They built an accelerator of 15 cm in length, with 1 MeV of electron beam and they obtain ions of 1 GeV at the exit. I wonder if there are similar accelerators in the West?

So apparently Michio Kaku built a 2.3-million-electron-volt particle accelerator in his parents' garage; once Harvard University found out about this they granted him admission. I'd like to go to Harvard. So if I were to build a particle accelerator would I be breaking any laws, or is it...

I have a question about the behavior of a charged particle being accelerated in an electric field. I know that it is possible to find the approximate final velocity of the particle (assuming it doesn't reach too great a fraction of the speed of light) simply by an energy balance, 1/2mv^2 = qV...

Recently, there was a http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/96iwv/the_year_is_2035_we_have_a_permanent_base_on_the/" on Reddit titled "The year is 2035. We have a permanent base on the moon and have sent multiple teams to Mars and back. What's next for NASA?" There were several interesting...

I am hoping to make a particle accelerator for a science fair, but am not sure on how to go about doing it. Can someone please give me some advice on what materials i will need to make an accelerator while at the same time being at a reasonable cost. Any websites will also help a lot. P.S. I...

Hi all. i have seen some videos on youtube and i am amazed by the videos of Gaussian accelerator/ Magnetic linear accelerator. As i have a physics project coming up i may consider using this for my project, however i need to ensure that this experiment is within my syllabus. i have basically...

The Division of Physics of Beams of the American Physical Society (APS) has produced this wonderful brochure titled "http://www.aps.org/units/dpb/upload/brochure.pdf" ". It essentially describe what a particle accelerator is, and more importantly, what it is used for. The main purpose here is...

The attached photo and youtube link is my current progress regarding the engineering and building of the 1971 Scientific American plans of a particle accelerator. My design will differ in several ways specific to vacuum tube, drift tube and equipotential ring design. However, the basic concept...

I am making a proof-of-concept linear accelerator with one stage at home ( if i can call it such ).The vacuum chamber is a 40cm transparent pipe with a radius of 10mm.The particles are accelerated by an electrical field created at the two ends of the tube with a voltage of 20kV.I need an...

Homework Statement A very thin beam of protons is injected at non-relativistic velocities in a circular particle accelerator of radius R. The mass m and the charge e of the proton are known. The initial current in the accelerator is I and the total number of particles is n. The magnetic...

I know not far in the past that that largest particle accelerator yet created was set to be activated. Can anyone please give me any information concerning whether or not it was activated and/or the consequences, if any, of what was discovered? Even the name of this contraption and where it is...

Why in an linear accelerator, like the Cock Croft Walton accelerator, in which protons would strike a solid piece of boron wouldn't give up more energy than the input? It seems to me that this situation have the least bremsstrahlung radiation loss and the highest cross section, for fusion...

Homework Statement In a conventional accelerator, the energy of the particles bombarding the target at rest is connected to their velocity by the relativistic formula where the relevant velocity of the bombarding particles v1 is the velocity relative to the target at rest, v1 = v1_rel. In an...

I would like to build a particle accelerator as a science project. I know it may be unrealistic, but depending upon the size and complexity that I choose, it should be possible. If anyone could help with the construction process of a small particle accelerator(preferably circular), I would...

a ninth grader? I am a 9th grader in the IB program (International Baccalaureate) and i am deeply fascinated by Michio Kaku and his betatron particel accelerator. I am VERY interested in Physics, especially particle physics. I want to construct a particle accelerator, for an independent...

Does anyone know what kind of salary an accelerator operator makes when starting out? Thanks

Homework Statement In a certain accelerator, protons of kinetic energy 1.6 x 10^-7 J move round a circular path of diameter 2000m . Calculate: (a) the centripetal acceleration (b) the mass ans for a is 9x10^13 ms-2, for b is 1.78 x 10^-24 kg Homework Equations centripetal...

Hello everyone! I am new to quantum physics, currently i am studying it in one of my classes in university. i need to do a project about particle accelerators and need ideas and clarification of this topic. i need an idea of an experiment that used a particle accelerator to find discover a...

So i have decided for my physics project to build a magnetic linear accelerator made with half inch ball bearings on a plastic track. The first bearing is rolled and accelerated by the magnet which when struck, launches the ball on the other side due to the momentum of the accelerated bearing...

Referring to fig 1 I have a particle accelerator in a space ship. The accelerator part is a point A and the particles are accelerated to point B. The velocity of the particles is measured by the observer at D and the energy input is measured by a meter at E. All of the points and the...

Sorry for such a general question; but does any know, or know where to find what type of physicists normally work at a particle accelerator? I'm hoping there's something more detailed than just 'particle physicists' and 'theoretical physicists,' but maybe that's all there is. Thanks to whoever...

my project is about the search for the graviton, i know we are using particle accelerators to try to find out about them however we cannot detect them still, but we can prove they exist, i am having trouble explaining what is actually being done to detect them in any kind of detail. and the...

Protons with momentum 2.2×10−16 kg*m/s are magnetically steered clockwise in a circular path 1.8 km in diameter at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. I am asked to find the magnitude and direction of the field in the magnets surrounding the beam pipe... I'm fairly certain...

Hello All, I was doing some research on different particle accelerator designs when I came across this interesting patent here: http://www.google.com/patents?id=FkYxAAAAEBAJ&dq=3935503 They claim in the patent that the device, using a rotating magnetic field, has the capability of...

Anyone know what a car's transfer function is, ie the dynamic response written as differential equations and diagrams, so a controller can be designed for it (as in the cruise control feature in some luxury cars)? I mean, many of us are familiar with the torque curve, ie engine torque as a...

Hi. I've been searching through graduate program which allows a student to work on subjects that are related to particle accelerator. I've found few well known programs. However, I was hoping some of you can introduce me more of such programs. I've found Stanford, Cornell, and UCLA has...

Homework Statement The most precise measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (g-2) is performed at Brookhaven (USA). In this experiment muons are held in a circular orbit in a 14 m diameter ring, with momentum 3.098 GeV. On average how many laps of the ring the muon will do...

Particle accelerator? I've read that we have accelerated small particles to 99.99% the speed of light. Now, if I understand this correctly, a particles mass increases as its speed increases. Also, if an object "having mass" was moving at the speed of light, it would have infinite mass...

I have a problem, something that I should know but slipped through the cracks. I have posted this in another thread but I will re-post it here in truncate. the other thread is https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=185203 (I hope I referenced this right.) anyway I do not intend to...

I've been reading a lot about jobs in physics being scarce. What about jobs at accelerators though? How would one get a job at fermilab for ex? Does it require additional schooling on top of a b.s. or Ph.D.? Would these offer stable positions?

What sort of things does someone who works at a lab as an "accelerator operator" do. Obviously the name speaks for itself but I was looking more a more specific description.

Homework Statement A proton accelerator, consisting of two charged plates whose potential difference is 45kV, is used to shoot a beam of protons into a magnetic field at an angle of 53 degrees to the +x-axis. The magnetic field is 1.5T, directed in the +x-direction Below is an image...

I had heard about a nulcear reactor, that did not require a critical mass, and therefore did not have the possibility of Loss of coolant or meltdown. a reactor that required power to run, so if you want you can "Switch it off". seems the present day reactors create a critcal mass, and all...

i hear that CERN is under construction and is to be the next "worlds largest paricle accelerator" now, fermilab can accelerate particles up to near speed of light. if the speed of light is the cosmic speed limmit, how is building a bigger one going to be any better i know there's a reason...

I have a question on accelerator driven systems. From everything I read this sounds like the perfect kind of reactor, minimise waste, possible to burn existing waste, no risk of meltdown and so on. It seems like this could very well be the ultra clean and safe energy source the word needs and...

What's the current maximum particle energy we can produce on earth? Also, what is the maximum we theoretically will achieve from proposed future accelerators, like the big loop at the LHC? I'm guessing 1TeV.

I need help. It’s urgent! # Assume that in the 70 million electron volt (MeV) betatron, the radius of the stable electron orbit is 28 cm. Calculate the frequency of the applied electric field. I have found the angular velocity of the electron (w) = 1.07 x 10^9 I assumed that the frequency of...

Does anyone know anything about Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (J lab) in Newport News, Virginia.

Hello, I just read about the biography of Michio Kaku, which says that during his High School years he build a homemade Betatron, a particle accelerator. Do you have any informations on how to make one, or any papers on mechanics of such one? And did you ever try to make one? Thanks,

Is a ring accelerator the same as a cyclotron? If not can someone please tell me somthing about ring accelerator, or send me links where I can find some information about ring accelerators.

What would be the largest possible particle accelerator if all the matter-energy of the universe was used to build it ? How far down in sizes could we probe ? I think as of now we can probe 10^-10 mm (?) but to probe even 10 times smaller you would need an accelerator 10 times bigger so it would...

The Bates Laboratory and the Harvard Cyclotron lab use to be the only two labs in New England that I knew of which had high energy particle accelerators. The Harvard lab shut down and Bates lab will be shutting down in the future. There is a new lab in Boston at the Northeast Proton Therapy...

So, according to Relativity, as an oject approaches the speed of light, it's mass increases and the Energy required to sustain the motion goes to infinity, basically making high speed travel almost impossible. How is it that Particle accelerators are able to accelerate Protons at 99.99% of...

Through random chance, I decided one day that I would build a proton accelerator. I understand the concepts of the physics that are involved well enough, but the actual construction is a bit of a mystery. There is a surprising number of rescources on the construction, but they mostly involve...

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