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Subject: Re: Vacuum plasma windows and microwave accelerators
Date: Sep 20, 12:20 pm
Poster: Jones Beene

On Sep 20, 12:20 pm, Jones Beene wrote:


JL >You'll probably want to leave it in the closet... TWTs are notoriously difficult to adjust.. It also might be a cavity TWT and not a helix TWT.

It is a helix TWT made in Germany with no documentation and yes, adjustment difficulties are probably the reason you can even buy these things cheaply at all - but remember, for simple irradiation applications we aren't talking about getting the thing to transmit in precise ranges of a few Khz - but only to put out a few hundred watts at frequencies that can vary all over the place - or in the case of a plasma window to dump a mix of electrons and photons into an already created plasma.

But you're probably right about this not being the most promising idea in the world as I don't think microwaves are anywhere near the frequenices that are required for resonance... however, back to the subject of plasma windows, do you recall the Kapitza atmospheric pressure reactor? I can't seem to find it in my files.

Jones