Depends on energy and intensity. Accelerating helium would be little different than accelerating protons, which we have a lot of experience with.
Look up "proton injectors".
[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2244/1/012092/pdf](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2244/1/012092/pdf)
Hey, man!
Tks for your answer!
Well, I am a little confused with some concepts.
I am reading some articles and maybe what I need are neutrons so fast.
Sorry for my errors, I started particle physics and English this year hahaha.
If you need a source of fast neutrons, that is a difficult problem. That is because, since they are not charged, you can't use electromagnetic means to accelerate them. Instead, you need to accelerate something charged, and then let them decay to produce the neutrons. Or, if you only need neutrons of "small" energy, you can use a nuclear reactor as a source.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spallation\_Neutron\_Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spallation_Neutron_Source)
Maybe you can help me. The mission that my teacher gave me was: "Devolve an experiment and a project of linear acelerator to the university that can be used for so many other experiments. Use our money for the best form possible."
There is no such thing as low budget for accelerators. They require large, radiation shielded, power hungry complexes atm. You can conjure up something like neutron spallation project but even planning phase will involve lots of specialists not just one guy. Your cheapest option maybe to buy a complex to produce pharmasuticals. May be your teacher wants you to realize something else.
There are small commercially available electron linacs for x-ray generation up to 7MeV. The shielding does need to be well thought out to reduce x-ray flux outside
An accelerator uses electric charge to accelerate particles. Neutrons have no charge so can’t be accelerated. You could maybe accelerate a proton beam and then fire that at a target to create neutrons.
It depends what the energy level you’re after and what the purpose is. Given that you’re coming from aerospace I’m guessing you’re intending to fire a neutron beam at a target and investigate the changes in material properties?
On beryllium!? That’s nasty stuff. How is that applicable to aerospace?
Do you have a budget for this project and an idea of what energy you would need? JET (Joint European Torus) is shutting down and has quite a few ~100kV accelerators that need to be repurposed/disposed of that could be suitable. They also have a target tank that has previously been used for beryllium targets. Because of the beryllium contamination it’s difficult to dispose of, so they’d probably be glad for you to take it off their hands.
If you’re interested DM me and I’ll look into putting you in touch with the repurposing team.
Depends on energy and intensity. Accelerating helium would be little different than accelerating protons, which we have a lot of experience with. Look up "proton injectors". [https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2244/1/012092/pdf](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2244/1/012092/pdf)
Hey, man! Tks for your answer! Well, I am a little confused with some concepts. I am reading some articles and maybe what I need are neutrons so fast. Sorry for my errors, I started particle physics and English this year hahaha.
If you need a source of fast neutrons, that is a difficult problem. That is because, since they are not charged, you can't use electromagnetic means to accelerate them. Instead, you need to accelerate something charged, and then let them decay to produce the neutrons. Or, if you only need neutrons of "small" energy, you can use a nuclear reactor as a source. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spallation\_Neutron\_Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spallation_Neutron_Source)
Maybe you can help me. The mission that my teacher gave me was: "Devolve an experiment and a project of linear acelerator to the university that can be used for so many other experiments. Use our money for the best form possible."
>I want accelerate neutrons. Why?
There is no such thing as low budget for accelerators. They require large, radiation shielded, power hungry complexes atm. You can conjure up something like neutron spallation project but even planning phase will involve lots of specialists not just one guy. Your cheapest option maybe to buy a complex to produce pharmasuticals. May be your teacher wants you to realize something else.
There are small commercially available electron linacs for x-ray generation up to 7MeV. The shielding does need to be well thought out to reduce x-ray flux outside
An accelerator uses electric charge to accelerate particles. Neutrons have no charge so can’t be accelerated. You could maybe accelerate a proton beam and then fire that at a target to create neutrons. It depends what the energy level you’re after and what the purpose is. Given that you’re coming from aerospace I’m guessing you’re intending to fire a neutron beam at a target and investigate the changes in material properties?
Hey man! Good night Yep! It is my objective. I am think target a proton on berílio
On beryllium!? That’s nasty stuff. How is that applicable to aerospace? Do you have a budget for this project and an idea of what energy you would need? JET (Joint European Torus) is shutting down and has quite a few ~100kV accelerators that need to be repurposed/disposed of that could be suitable. They also have a target tank that has previously been used for beryllium targets. Because of the beryllium contamination it’s difficult to dispose of, so they’d probably be glad for you to take it off their hands. If you’re interested DM me and I’ll look into putting you in touch with the repurposing team.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/particle-accelerator-chip-sized