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

[Tom Arnold]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:44:28AM -0700, 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?

Sounds like my old job at CEBAF, except it was a 4 GeV beam...

There are so many ways to die working at a Physics lab!  If you dont
get accidently sliced in half because a steering magnetic fails, maybe
the 170,000 litres of liquid helium will take away all your oxygen, or maybe
the liquid nitrogen will, or maybe one of the Physicists will put some tape
over a kill switch so he can run the vertical test chamber without the
30ton lead shield over top and you just get microwaved.

On the plus side, you know you can use the klystrons for warming up leftover
mcdonalds food.  Just put your food in the dummy load and give it about
2 seconds...  And freshly evaporated Helium ( approx 5 degrees Kelvin ) will
chill a beer right to the edge of solid in about a second, just wear gloves
while you drink it as the can will be a little cold.

If only Synthesizers had a kill radius...

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