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- Title
NEW DESIGN FOR ATOM RESEARCH EQUIPMENT.
- Authors
Haslett, N. W.
- Abstract
The article informs that physicist M. L. E. Oliphant, director of the Nuffield Laboratory of the University of Birmingham, England, is working on a new design for atom research equipment. Oliphant reckons to produce protons of 1,000 MeV energy at the cost of a mere $550,000. In a cyclotron, the particles start their journey at the center of a disc-shaped chamber, and move outwards along a spiral course, the radius of which increases with their speed. Oliphant's design intends to get away from the need to build larger and larger circular magnets. Oliphant is applying this idea to produce the high-energy protons needed for nuclear transmutations. In the system, the whirling particles, instead of being allowed to spiral over the whole area of a large circle, would be confined to a relatively narrow circular course round the outer edge. Oliphant has been given a British Government grant by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Oliphant hopes that, by next summer, his 1000 tons electromagnet "proton synchotron" will be in position, and within 18 months to two years the complete equipment should be working.
- Subjects
OLIPHANT, Marcus Laurence Elwin; ATOMS; PROTONS; PARTICLE accelerators; CYCLOTRONS; NUCLEAR reactions; ELECTROMAGNETIC devices; ELECTROMAGNETS; FEDERAL aid to research
- Publication
Science Education, 1948, Vol 32, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730320113