I'm 17, currently a high school student in Japan working on a 400kV Cockcroft-Walton electrostatic accelerator mainly for protons.
Physics is definitely the path I'd like to take in the future. I'm a medalist in this year's Japanese national physics Olympiad, so I consider myself fairly competent in terms of the theoretical side of things. On the other hand, I have little experience building or designing anything, so I'll be needing to feed off of this forum in that respect.
I realize that linear accelerators are not what this forum is for, but my goal is pretty similar to building a fusor, the main challenge being the vacuum system.
I'm looking forward to contribute here and hope that it'll be a productive experience.
Hello from Tokyo, Japan
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Re: Hello from Tokyo, Japan
Welcome!
You may want to check out viewtopic.php?f=12&t=10791&hilit=rapp+instruments, a drop accelerator that does fusion pretty successfully.
Personally, I suspect that beam on target drop accelerators may actually be a better thing to build than fusors since they apparently can work with much lower currents. However, I am a very long way from being able to test this.
You won't be the first van-de-graff accelerator person here!
You may want to check out viewtopic.php?f=12&t=10791&hilit=rapp+instruments, a drop accelerator that does fusion pretty successfully.
Personally, I suspect that beam on target drop accelerators may actually be a better thing to build than fusors since they apparently can work with much lower currents. However, I am a very long way from being able to test this.
You won't be the first van-de-graff accelerator person here!