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What effect would accelerated electrons have in the air?
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[QUOTE="member 656954, post: 6282396"] I've been reading about semiconductor [URL='https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Researchers_Build_Chip-Size_Particle_Accelerator/a65417']laser-driven particle accelerators[/URL] over the years, and think they would make an interesting future-tech privacy screen...possibly. My design is along the lines illustrated by the diagram, but I'm wondering what actual effect accelerated electrons would have in the air. A quick search suggests nothing good, though, with generation of "[URL='https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016GL072216']X‐rays with photon energies up to 1 MeV[/URL]" as an example. Given this is sci-fi, I'm happy to apply artistic license, but if the people within are going to electrocuted, or sheeted with X-rays, then that might be a plot device carried too far :nb) [ATTACH type="full"]255202[/ATTACH] (In my story I've also a circular rug that absorbs (grounds?) the electrons.) [/QUOTE]
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