Title :
A Method for Calibrating a Van de Graaff Accelerator System
Author :
Andrade, E. ; Robledo, A. ; Dorantes, J.
Author_Institution :
Instituto de FÃ\xadsica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México Apdo. Postal 20-364, Mexico 20, D. F.
Abstract :
Positive ion HV Van de Graaff accelerators produce quite intense X radiation from the HV terminal. This report describes an absolute method of obtaining the accelerating voltage V by the straightforward experimental measurement of the X radiation energies using a low energy photon detector and a multichainnel analyzer. The comparison of the accelerating voltage V measured with this proposed method and the voltage measured from tne magnetic energy analysis of the proton beam was very good in the 80-160 kV range.
Keywords :
Acceleration; Calibration; Energy measurement; Ion accelerators; Magnetic analysis; Magnetosphere; Particle beams; Proton accelerators; Voltage; X-rays;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1979.4330422
