If you ever wanted to build a particle accelerator, now is your chance!

[Red Squirrel]

SiGen MeV LINAC Linear Accelerator Buckley Magnets Cryo-Plex 10 Vac Pump - Gilroy - Equipment Dispositions Inc

SiGen MeV LINAC Linear Accelerator Buckley Magnets Cryo-Plex 10 Vac Pump. Some of the highlights of this system are an Oxford Cryo-Plex 10 High Vacuum Cryo Pump with 2200 Automatic Cryopump Control, a Nor-Cal GVP-12002 Gate Valve, six Sorensen DCS8-125E Power Supplies (8VDC, 125A), one Sorensen...

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Some assembly required.

 

[Charmonium]

You can get over 4 Gev from a wakefield accelerator that fits on a lab bench.

World record for compact 'tabletop' particle accelerator

Using one of the most powerful lasers in the world, researchers have accelerated subatomic particles to the highest energies ever recorded from a compact accelerator.

phys.org

Of course that's a far cry from the 13 Tev LHC puts out.

edit - oops. that was from 2014. The new record is somewhere over 10Gev

Physicists set world record in tabletop plasma acceleration with laser drill

Laser pulses make like a speedboat, churning up wakes that electrons can “surf.”…

arstechnica.com

 

[Fritzo]

Tony Stark built one in his basement in a few hours to discover a new element. I could probably handle this.

 

[shortylickens]

What are you talking about?
I accelerate particles every day in my bed!

 

[Muse]

I have a BB gun, does that count?

 

[Muse]

Here's a guy who made a life out of it:

Ernest Lawrence - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

more like Large Hardon Collider....

 

[Charmonium]

Here's a guy who made a life out of it:

Ernest Lawrence - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think he invented the first accelerator which had an output of 80Kev - a mere 80,000 electron volts. It was a cyclotron and just consisted of 2 D-shaped magnets.

So even though there is a vast difference between wakefield accelerators and synchrotrons like LHC, just because they start out small doesn't mean they'll stay that way.

 

[SKORPI0]

more like Large Hardon Collider....

Hard on?


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