Homemade Particle Accelerator #2

[TheCajunpenguin]

does it work?

[AddColorsToYourLife]

and not a single state tax dollar was spent

[Licmycat]

What do you do with it?

[freshkryp69]

Anyone want a custom photon accelerator

[HenzGV]

@freshkryp69 what do you mean?

[ntesla66]

Beautiful work Sir. I would like to ask how you cut and polished your borosilicate tubing? Regards.

[pufon1000]

похоже на высоковольтный изолятор

[lemsterterror1]

@clagwell when the next part comming up

[matchbook69]

I have a test stand power supplies etc. All equipment is clean. Used for source development. Patent procurment. For sale

[TheSquidparadox]

I prototyped the T-rex gamma accelerator smallest ever, did all machining and re engineering. Share? You would need some crazy power though. The T-rex runs off a critical mass of plutonium. my personal mini helium trans accelerator uses water.

[jefsin1]

what ?no duct tape.it won't work.

[Films4You]

@jefsin1

and no super glue...

[matchbook69]

If your looking for power supplies step down xformer cti cryogenic pump analyzing magnet, magnetron controller. high voltage test stand source containment roughing pump. All equipment had nitrogen used so everything is uncontaminated.

Send me a message rather find someone who will take all

[LandroverB1]

what would happen if i aimed two tv's at each other or sorry two cathode ray tubes at each other then encapsulated them both with plasma energy?that'd be a disaster?thanks peter.

[clagwell]

@LandroverB1 No disaster. A TV type cathode ray tube is actually a very simple electron (beta) particle accelerator. It is not effecient at accelerating any other type of particles (Alpha, or heavier ions). So, at most you would have is a tiny hot spot where the electrons mesh. Regarding the encapsulation with plasma: Again, probably nothing. The plasma would reduce the strength of your two electron beams before they meet one another. You may want to read about the "gunned" fusor design.

[LandroverB1]

@clagwell Thanks that solved it well.I'll now direct my energies on boosting the magnetic field with step ups in power(amps) to move some mass baby.A Xformer cti cryogenic pump analyzing magnet(wow) and a high voltage test stand(wOW) the only other requirement would be a vacuum tube the size of a cat and some more technical help.Let it be so.

[Toffsen100]

Hello, i have two or maybe more questions, im from germany and graduating this year (next year but its the last school year for me). We have one exam where you present a theme of your choice. I'm really interested in physic, and in the LHC in Switzerland, too. For that exam i need a modell, and that one looks phantastic. So i wanted to know what it cost you make that , maybe how long it took you, and if a student with average-good skill in building could make one of those, Thanks a lot.

[ninjalex08]

@blackmesa25

If you can't figure out how to use the mute button, you probably shouldn't be watching this video...

[clagwell]

@blackmesa25 Now I have heard it all.

[13baldjj]

@clagwell Nice video. Can we expect a third instalment?

[Virusly]

Can you email me a blueprint if you have one? :D

[HenkWillem89]

Great video!! Can you tell me the name of the music??

[naxxramas1onclubpeng]

Particle Accelerator?

Must be good for catching ghosts :3

[miguelmouta]

long live the popular electronics revolution.

[TaylorHolmes]

This is AMAZING stuff you got here. Is this a LINAC designed for accelerating electrons? I noticed in part1 there appeared to be a CRT as the particle source.

What do you plan to do with this... what is the target? Also, how fast are you trying to make these particles fly (in eV or m/s)? I'm curious because I want to build something like this in order to charge acrylic for the purpose of creating Lichtenberg figures.

[kiriakooooos]

nice , beautiful built , but when the third part will be uploaded?

[DanNixon2007]

Don't the drift tubes have to be at larger spacings and be longer themselves further along the accelerator to counteract the effect of the increase in velocity as they have to be subjected to the p.d. for the same amount of time each stage?

[WhiteDreamtripper300]

@patrickwellerwrites a particle accelerator is used to launch atoms at extremely close to light speed and collide them with other atoms or the same atom to further understand whats below this layer of atom, and its tested in some cases to create fusion and create new types of atoms. pretty amazing!

[uidsea]

New vid please!

[patrickwellerwrites]

what are you firing the particles at?

[patrickwellerwrites]

@SASNIGHTCRAWLER you could look at a video to show how to make a cathode ray tube and it will tell you how to make an electron gun for creating the image you could just build the gun if thats all you want. thats all I can anwser.I know theres one by clagwell.

[arnold02000]

@CravattEnterprises You're lucky to have a wife that understands. I've always built and designed things, and pretty much every girl I've dated has never been into a guy with my type of mind.

[clagwell]

@joesitter20101 Your comments are entirely out of context for this video. Everything you discuss are things covered in the first video and related comments. The first Cockroft Walton accelerator was only two stages, used sharp eged flashing as a corona ring / equipotential resistor and had crude vacuum. The design does work. Obviously not as efficient as your "industrial accelerators", but neither was the model built in 1932.

[joesitter20101]

@clagwell I know your linac will work to a degree but it will have such poor vacuum that accelerated ions will collide with neutral gas molecules. Other ions will strike the drift tubes, sputtering brass to coat the spacers which will eventually arc over. Large openings allow the apparatus to achieve 5E-6 Torr or better vacuum. Examine early designs that used large glass bulbs between drift tubes. This is why they did that. Also look into a phenomenon called "space charge". The gaps are lenses.

[joesitter20101]

@clagwell A commercially made linac tube is made over a rod shaped fixture that keeps the drift tubes in alignment until special epoxy resin sets up. The fixture is then removed. Your brass disks should have perhaps 5 large holes drilled in them for high conductance vacuum pumping. You will have best results using a string of equipotential resistors. In a properly operating linac, the ion beam is invisible. Only collisions with air are visible as various ions fall to the ground state.

[joesitter20101]

@clagwell Sir, it is important to provide a secondary electron suppression ring electrode just prior to the Faraday flag where you connect your electrometer (pico-ammeter) to measure the beam current. Failure to suppress these low energy electrons will allow them to be accelerated toward your ion source. Each time they strike an object or are otherwise deviated from their path, X-ray photons will be generated. X-ray photons are dangerous waste products of an ion accelerator. Be careful. Joe.

[snipz9z]

hey...what are you gona use to see your results?

btw if you are using brass for the drift tube, it will eventualy become hot and if you are using glass drift tube spaces, it will shater

[insanecat1]

@Clagwell you must have alot of time on your hands :D

[worldwar2madman]

Hey bud, I'm thinking of making one of the similar design. You got any tips for this project? I've done quantum physics for a long time, and understand the theory(ies) well. Seems swish to not try this. And it'll look awesome. Any good/bad bits about the project and some advice to pass on?

Tim

[qrrak]

so ????????????

[Charrister]

Being a totally "unscienced" what do you actually do with it? :)

[quantumbits]

@Charrister  Accelerate Particles :)

[Charrister]

@quantumbits Well, I had that coming! :)

[quantumbits]

@Charrister LOL! The largest Particle Accelerator is the Large Hadron Collider under France and Switzerland. In this 63 mile circular tunnel, neutrons (the no- charge part of an atoms nucleus) are confined to opposing beams, boosted to unbelievable speeds and steered to collide into each other. The resulting train wreck, to scientists delight, is a shower of yet unseen particles. Basically when we don't know what makes something, we smash into smaller bits to find out.

[quantumbits]

@Charrister The smallest, most common particle accelerator is the conventional tube type TV or computer monitor. There Electrons (particle from an atom cloud) are accelerated toward you. But instead of hitting you in the face, they hit a phosphor coating that gives off light. The beam is turned on and off as it is steered very fast to paint a moving display you see as video.

[Charrister]

@quantumbits

Thanks :)

[Digadogup]

tutorial? lol

[MonsterSpartan]

what would happen if you used a sapphire or a any thing different other than a corona ring?

just a thought I'm no quatum physicsits or engineer of some sort hence the unconsciouable thoughts

[DrMadIron]

nuetron particle accelerators are my favorite!

[TheMaliPerica]

Nice music! :)

[Tdog283]

this is great. I want to build one. Is this like a Van de Graaf accelerator or a linear RF accelerator? I'm planning on building a linear accelerator, and if this is RF powered as well then I'd greatly appreciate your input.

[TheOne272]

are you an engineering artist?. you made that thing with such a beauty. never seen anything like that before. and you sure must have spent a lot in that. it took me 6 months only to build a small van de graaff generator. i wish i could make something like that you have made.

[dc100GHz]

I'm amazed at the high quality of videos and the high quality the project.

Are you going to power the tube using an alternating current like in a linac? or apply increasing high voltage DC to the rings?

[clagwell]

Thanks ! It will be powered with a Van de Graaff generator. Pure high-potential D.C.