OT Klystron [was Re: [sdiy] Tube ring mod]

[Colin f]

>At 02:44 PM 6/18/03 , The Peasant wrote:

>We pulse them up to 110KV @ 100A, fun stuff! Then we use
>the RF output to excite the actual accelerating waveguide,
>which is basically a large tube with tuned RF cavities,
>2.998 gigahertz. Anyone for a 22 MeV electron beam? (That's
>22 million volts, folks, please stand back) How about 18
>MeV of photon (gamma) radiation?

Is that enough crude power to short-circuit the continuum on a 5 or 6
parsec level ?

Colin f
(who has only the vaguest idea what a Klystron is, but wants one anyway)





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