What is a linear accelerator?
Linear accelerator is a device that accelerates to high speed, shifting along a linear path with electromagnetic fields. This term is most often used to indicate a linear particle accelerator or LINAC, which accelerates atoms or subatomical particles. The "linear accelerator" may also refer to devices that use electromagnetism to drive larger objects such as Coilguns and Railguns. Non -medicines are commonly used in medicine, industry and scientific experiments and electromagnetic accelerators for larger objects, future applications for purposes such as traveling space and weapons. These can be whole charged atoms called ions or subatomical particles such as protons and electrons. First, a particle to accelerate is generated by an electromagnetic device, such as a cathode or an ion source and releases into a vacuum chamber in the shape of a pipeline lined with electrodes. Electrodes then under voltage to create oscillating magnetic POle, which gives the particle energy and accelerates it down the tube towards the target's goal. The exact arrangement of the electrodes in the tube, power and energy frequency sent to the electrodes and the power size varies according to the accelerated particles and the purpose of the equipment.
A simple and very common example is the cathode tube, which is commonly used on TVs, monitors and other display technologies. The cathode beam tube drives the electrons to the tube until it encounters a solid target at the end of the tube made of luminescent materials called phosphors, which are usually metal sulphide compounds. This causes part of the electron energy to be released as an emission of electromagnetic energy in wavelengths that detects the human eye as a visible light. X -ray machines are used in medicine and biological research, which is governed by a similar principle, shoots electron currents into copper, molybdenum or wolfRAM to produce X -ray emissions that can be used for displaying or, with more powerful devices, radiotherapy.
Linear particle accelerators are also used in scientific research. Small devices are often used for displaying in biological and archaeological research. Linear accelerators used for research vary in size and can achieve truly colossal dimensions due to extremely high energy levels needed to produce some phenomena studied in modern physics. The largest linear particle accelerator on the ground located in SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, is two miles long.
are also used in some industrial processes. Some silicon chips used in modern electronics are produced in a process including accelerators that drive the entire atoms charged instead of subatominal particles that allow very accurate placement of atoms during production. AcceleratorAcores can also be used to implant ions on the surface of materials such as steel, which changes the structure of the material to be more resistant to chemical corrosion of cracks.
The term "linear accelerator" is also sometimes used for devices that drive larger objects in a similar way, using electromagnetism to accelerate the projectile along the direct path. This work with the operation of electricity either by a metal coil wrapped around a device called Coilgun, a mass control or a Gaussian weapon, or through a few metal rails located parallel to each other, called railway. The object made of ferromagnetic material, such as iron, can be accelerated mainly by magnetic fields produced by properly timed electric currents. Coilguns were designed as a possible way to trigger the cost of the Earth's surface into space, and both Coilguns and Railguns are examined as possible weapons.