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Subject: Vacuum plasma windows and microwave accelerators
Date: Sep 19, 1:10 pm
Poster: Scott Stephens

On Sep 19, 1:10 pm, Scott Stephens wrote:

There is a website at http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/p99/KW/KW/KW133.HTM
with lots of interesting 3 page papers on accelerator technology. I found the following paper "The Plasma Window: A Windowless High Pressure-Vacuum Interface for Various Accelerator Applications" there:
http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/p99/PAPERS/FRAL3.PDF

It describes using a 4cm stabilized arc in a 3mm dia tube to keep a vacuum between electron tubes, lasers or accelerators and atmospheric pressure (and up to 40 psi) targets.

With a "travelling wave accelerator", a microwave powered vacuum pump might be created that would only require a roughing pump. Ions shoot towards the pump, electrons into the fusor to provide ionization.

A travelling wave or helical microwave accelerator could be as simple as a glass tube in a pipe with washers or helical wire wrapped around it. Simple in construction, complicated in design and alignment. Any thoughts?

Scott