The ion source in the Cockroft-Walton generator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago. The Cockroft-Walton is at the beginning of the particle acceleration process. Electrons are added to hydrogen atoms in the ion source in the generator,& the resulting ions (a proton with 2 electrons attached) emerge from the high-voltage accelerator with an energy of 750 keV. They then travel through the Linear Accelerator or Linac,the Booster Accelerator,& finally the two giant magnet rings that form the Tevatron accelerator,which can whirl protons & antiprotons up to an energy of 1000 GeV (1 TeV). (May '84) | |
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