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Image File: 96602944
Title: View inside linac chamber showing drift tubes
Description: View inside the partially opened linac chamber showing the drift tubes between which protons are successively accelerated. The machine may be pictured as a cylindrical wave guide or resonant cavity containing a time-varying accelerating field everywhere the same. The field automatically bunches particles that enter the gaps between the drift tubes as the field is increasing there. Particles arriving slightly early (or late) receive a smaller (or larger) push than the mean, and come in better time to the next gap. (The preceding information was excerpted from the text of the Fall 1981 issue of LBL Newsmagazine.)
Citation Caption: LBL NEWS Magazine, Vol.6, No.3, Fall 1981, p. 67 | View inside the partially opened linac chamber showing the drift tubes between which protons are successively accelerated.
Equipment: linac chamber, drift tubes
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