Hello from Asheboro, NC

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Arvin Singh
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Hello from Asheboro, NC

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Hi, we are a group of 6 people in 8th grade:
Arvin Singh
Drew Shelton
Lucas Wright
Anuragh Sriram
George Kearns
Aron McClintock

We have been planning this for 2-3 months now and we are going to start building soon.
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Re: Hello from Asheboro, NC

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Also earlier this year we were going to build a particle accelerator but I decided that a fusion reactor released more energy anyways and the energy given of as gamma rays would be enough to create antimatter. I want to image the radiation with a cloud chamber.
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Re: Hello from Asheboro, NC

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Re: the registration and login protocols for this new member:

I exchanged several messages with Arvin (or was it Ari?) Singh over the past couple of days asking how his group could register for the forums.

I told them it would be OK to do it this way – use this one name as a proxy for the entire group, but sign the messages with the name of whoever is posting the actual messages (if it's somebody different than either Arvin or Ari).

It's a unique situation, but I don't think it will cause any problems. They seem like earnest and respectful kids and should be a valuable new addition to our fold.

And yeah, I've been real quiet this year, it's just been... a strange one personally.

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Re: Hello from Asheboro, NC

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Welcome to the forum. I want to point out that a fusor won't produce very large amounts of gamma radiation. The only reaction producing this is the very rare D+D = 4He + g reaction, which happens in such low quantities compared to the neutron-producing reactions that it is pretty negligible, so it'd be very hard to distinguish from the relatively huge amount of neutron radiation. Also, I assume you want to produce antimatter by pair production. An easier way to produce positron anihilations is to use something like Potassium-40, although you'd need a spectrometer to pick up the annihilation 511 keV gamma photons from safe amounts of that.

Have you considered building a neutron detector instead of the cloud chamber? I could be wrong on this but I think that the x-rays from the fusor HV would interfere with any visual detection the cloud chamber could give.
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Re: Hello from Asheboro, NC

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Thanks, and I was wondering how much voltage I will need for the fusor and where type it has to be.
P.S. There is no Ari.
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Re: Hello from Asheboro, NC

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There is no definitive voltage for fusion. Voltage determines maximum particle energy which determines the cross section (probability) of the fusion reaction occurring. All of this is in the FAQs.
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