This week, testing/calibrations of the Lithium Pellet Injector, the Supersonic Gas Injector, and the Tangential Soft X-Ray systems were perfomed, and the installation of the new Hypervelocity Dust Injector (HDI) continued. Operation of the neutral beam helium refrigerator to clean-up the process gas is in progress. The bake of the vacuum vessel is scheduled to begin next week.

also

Maintenance work was performed by on the multipoint Thomson scattering (MPTS) lasers by the vendor. Alignment of the system was also performed, in preparation for the Rayleigh and Raman scattering calibrations with a gas-filled vacuum vessel.

Exciting...isn't it!!!! If all goes well it won't be long now!!

Chownah

:D

If you need any help you can stop by my lab with 450KV Neutron Generator, 13.56MHz RF Plasma chamber, 2MV He++ ion implantor, Varian SemiConductor multi-species gas ion implantor, 20MeV Far Infrared Radiation femtosecond linear accelerator. Also tandetron with Rutherford Backscattering spectroscopy system. In my case, I didn't make any of this up.

What are building? A Time Machine !!

the Lithium Pellet Injector

I can understand why.

This week, testing/calibrations of the Lithium Pellet Injector, the Supersonic Gas Injector, and the Tangential Soft X-Ray systems were perfomed, and the installation of the new Hypervelocity Dust Injector (HDI) continued. Operation of the neutral beam helium refrigerator to clean-up the process gas is in progress. The bake of the vacuum vessel is scheduled to begin next week.

also

Maintenance work was performed by on the multipoint Thomson scattering (MPTS) lasers by the vendor. Alignment of the system was also performed, in preparation for the Rayleigh and Raman scattering calibrations with a gas-filled vacuum vessel.

Exciting...isn't it!!!! If all goes well it won't be long now!!

Chownah

Ahhh Ha

so "The Empire Will Strike Back” now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ready, Teddy and all systems A-Go-Go.

It is without a doubt the most exiting thing to happen to Bedlam since ...---...

(I was going to correct the spelling mistake, but I think I was right the first time.)

I think I forgot to mention that a column of boron powder 76 mm long by 2 mm diameter was accelerated in an off-line test injector to a velocity of 9 m/s onto a piezoelectric target detector at a distance of 36 cm with an efficiency of 100%. The dispersal region at the detector was about 60 mm diameter which extrapolates to about 76 mm diameter at the plasma scrape-off-layer (SOL).....and that experiments are in progress to determine the temporal spread in the incident powder. Sorry, it must have slipped my mind.

Tywais,

Does your multi-species gas ion implantor use positive or negative ions as its precurser for acceleration?

Chownah

Tywais,

Does your multi-species gas ion implantor use positive or negative ions as its precurser for acceleration?

Chownah

Positive species (+ & ++) for one machine and negative for another. Now planning on how to generate heavy mass ions (PB - lead) for rice gene mutation project.

Ok you two just get on with it.

Chownah, are you building this beerbrewery now?

When can we come for the first sample?

I bring some peanuts!

:D

they could get a room together and play starfishes

Tywais,

13.56MHz RF Plasma chamber, is that a small cyclotron?

Chownah

clownah...you lie like a dog...a particle accelerator requires some kilometers of path and a vigorous cooling system...useta drive by the one at Stanford in CA in previous days...

you just wanna impress the gurls...

have ananylsed your results and you genaust scale is -58

clownah...you lie like a dog...a particle accelerator requires some kilometers of path and a vigorous cooling system...useta drive by the one at Stanford in CA in previous days...

you just wanna impress the gurls...

and he would need a few bucks too, tutsi ... the farmers only got manure ... maybe its just a lighter and farts that's really taking place

Tywais,

13.56MHz RF Plasma chamber, is that a small cyclotron?

Chownah

A cyclotron does use RF but for different function. Used to accelerate a charged particle in a compact space by moving it in a cirular orbit rather then straight as in a linear accelerator. The RF in the plasma ionizes low pressure nitrogen gas (others can be used) with enough energy (1000 Watts in this case) to produce a plasma confined in a magnetic field. One thing done with this technology here is to insert Thai silk into the plasma and it comes out water proof with no change in texture or flexibility. A drop of water justs beads up and rolls off.

clownah...you lie like a dog...a particle accelerator requires some kilometers of path and a vigorous cooling system...useta drive by the one at Stanford in CA in previous days...

You'd be right if you weren't wrong. An example of a particle accelerator is your old CRT based TV sets and video screens. Electron acceleration at it's simplest. Also I manage 5 particle accelerators at our lab at CMU, one being a 20 million electron volt electron accelerator and is about 3 meters long. Pumped with 5 megawatts of RF power at 2.856 GHz. We also collaborate with SLAC (Stanford).

clownah...you lie like a dog...a particle accelerator requires some kilometers of path and a vigorous cooling system...useta drive by the one at Stanford in CA in previous days...

You'd be right if you weren't wrong. An example of a particle accelerator is your old CRT based TV sets and video screens. Electron acceleration at it's simplest. Also I manage 5 particle accelerators at our lab at CMU, one being a 20 million electron volt electron accelerator and is about 3 meters long. Pumped with 5 megawatts of RF power at 2.856 GHz. We also collaborate with SLAC (Stanford).

whaddaya doin' managing particle accelerators when you could patent that silk waterproofing process an' retire???...sheesh, never could unnerstand science types an' their weird ideas...

clownah...you lie like a dog...a particle accelerator requires some kilometers of path and a vigorous cooling system...useta drive by the one at Stanford in CA in previous days...

You'd be right if you weren't wrong. An example of a particle accelerator is your old CRT based TV sets and video screens. Electron acceleration at it's simplest. Also I manage 5 particle accelerators at our lab at CMU, one being a 20 million electron volt electron accelerator and is about 3 meters long. Pumped with 5 megawatts of RF power at 2.856 GHz. We also collaborate with SLAC (Stanford).

whaddaya doin' managing particle accelerators when you could patent that silk waterproofing process an' retire???...sheesh, never could unnerstand science types an' their weird ideas...

I told you he was lighting his farts ........

He's trying to get Lara Croft to go round his house.

Tywais,

13.56MHz RF Plasma chamber, is that a small cyclotron?

Chownah

A cyclotron does use RF but for different function. Used to accelerate a charged particle in a compact space by moving it in a cirular orbit rather then straight as in a linear accelerator. The RF in the plasma ionizes low pressure nitrogen gas (others can be used) with enough energy (1000 Watts in this case) to produce a plasma confined in a magnetic field. One thing done with this technology here is to insert Thai silk into the plasma and it comes out water proof with no change in texture or flexibility. A drop of water justs beads up and rolls off.

Still sounds like a cyclotron....what is the confinement field geometry? What path do the nitrogen ions follow....just semi random plasma type movements?

Chownah

clownah an' tywais are promoting witchcraft an' black magic...I say we burn 'em at the stake...

Tywais,

How about that magnetic confinement geometry?...any ideas?

Chownah

Great progress is being made!!!

Rayleigh and Raman scattering calibrations of the Multi-pulse Thomson Scattering (MPTS) diagnostic has been completed and they have started the vacuum vessel bake....I hope they all remembered to bring their pot holders and oven mitts!!!! Round the clock neutral beam helium refrigerator operations has begun and the liquid nitrogen cool-down of the beam-line is in progress. Also this week, preparations for the fabrication of a new lithium evaporator (LITER-1d) continued and they have decided on which materials to use..the candidate for heater element material passed embrittlement tests up to 1000 deg C.....they are still checking proposed materials for thermal and vacuum compatibility though..........I think that the LITER-1d need not be completed before they light it up but I thought you all might like an update on its progress anyway........so......don't hold your breath but it shouldn't be toooooo long now.

Chownah

Er, right, I'm off to the sesquipediddley thread...

Kan Win,

Being a photo grapher I thought you'd like to hear about the cameras they are using. They used to have a camera that took 256 by 256 pixel images which I know is not great resolution...but get this....it could take 4,500 pictures per SECOND and could store 8012 pictures with its more than 500 meg of onboard memory!!!!.....and......if you want to take your pictures FASTER......it will reduce the pixel count to as low as 64 by 64 pixels (using the center 64x64 pixels only) but it will up your picture taking rate to 40,500 FRAMES PER SECOND and the onboard memory will store 131,072 frames at this resolution!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the new camera is even faster......the new one will take up to 90,000 frames per second....I haven't been able to find the other specs for the new camera....

I think this camera would be good for capturing subtle nuances in expressions and slight (yet very important) variations in a sunset!!!

Just thought you'd like to know...don't know what a camera like this costs in case you are thinking of getting one.

Chownah

Kan Win,

Being a photo grapher I thought you'd like to hear about the cameras they are using.

"chownah"

Tank you for your ad-vice

Since I am not in “that “ lower spectrum of photography one Kan not answer your question ?

Why should one put themselves out to take photos at the quality ? For What?

I do not

Yours truly,

Kan Win

Kan Win,

The Buddha taught that all things are impermanent.....everything changes.....and some things change very quickly. A camera like that is what you need if you want to get pictures of all those really quickly changing things. They are using this camera to take pictures of how electrical sparks change.....really BIG electrical sparks....more than 1 metre across electrical sparks!!!!!......electric sparks spinning around in a big chamber!!!!

Do you think a camera like that could record the exact instant that someone falls in love?...or out of?...or perhaps the exact moment when the sh1t hits the fan?

Chownah

All well and good.

Until you discover the electric power plug is the wrong type to fit the power socket.