Jonny69's inventing laboratory: home made particle accelerator

[Tomsk]

You need to get hold a Casio EX-F series camera. Upto 1000 or 1200fps video.
If you were local to Manchester I would gladly volunteer my services (and cameras) as a cameraman.

 

[Monkeynut]

Please read up and understand these things before doing them!

Where exactly are you making this Jonny69? In your living room?

 

[Strife212]

You do realise that someone already did build their own reactor to make plutonium in their house?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRvX2pCtdyo

I do not suggest anyone does this at all.

That's pretty amazing.

 

[scrlk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

 

[Strife212]

Bugorski used to work with the largest Soviet particle accelerator, the U-70 synchrotron (synchrotron).

Bugorski was leaning over the piece of equipment when he stuck his head in the part through which the proton beam was running

o_o

 

[xplosiv]

Watched that you tube link that pretty impressive, but didnt anyone else think of fallout 3 while watching it

 

[Raikiri]

You must do this, and include a cat in your project somewhere. Everyone knows all good science projects feature a cat.

Schrodinger's cat doesn't really apply when it's in a particle accelerator

 

[Moredhel]

You have the means and the motivation, go for it?!

 

[NickK]

Schrodinger's cat doesn't really apply when it's in a particle accelerator

Well once you close the door of the living room with the cat inside and the machine active.. you won't know the state of the cat.. or your house.

 

[BigglesPiP]

Stick with the TV, It's just electrons (Beta radiation), has a range of about 10cm in air, quite safe.

Cut the back off the CRT tube carefully and square, prepare it to take a gasket, it's really thick glass. Onto the front of that attach a metal tube, with a chamber at the end with an observation window and access door on the side. The tube should end with a phosphorus screen so you can see the aim.

Pull a vacuum on the whole ensemble and use the existing coils in the back of the CRT to aim with a little control circuitry (I can help you with that part).

Now you can play with adding accelerator coil/s in the metal tube to make the beam even faster, and put things in the observation chamber to bombard them with electrons.



Edit:
I'm not sure what bombarding stiff with electrons can achieve, maybe etching? A program in the control circuit could make it a digital engraver.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Do it, whats the worst that can happen?

 

[Vampire]

just use the switching on from otherside of workshop with a broomstick approach

i do this everytime i fix something electrical

This.

Or, put a sign on it saying "please do not switch this on", go for a coffee, and within minutes someone else will have switched it on.

 

[ntg]

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[Aod]

Edit:
I'm not sure what bombarding stiff with electrons can achieve, maybe etching? A program in the control circuit could make it a digital engraver.

they'll strongly ionise everything they collide with...

 

[GreenMint]

After suggesting it, it'd be rude not to follow it through, you can stream the live test on ustream