Acceleration of Nitrogen Ions to 7.4 Gev in the Princeton Particle Accelerator
- 10 December 1971
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 174 (4014), 1121-1123
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.174.4014.1121
Abstract
Nitrogen ions in charge states N5+ and N6+ have been accelerated in the Princeton Particle Accelerator to 4 and 7.4 billion electron volts (Gev), respectively. An external N5+ beam of 1 x 106 particles per second has been obtained and focused to a 6-millimeter-diameter spot. The N6+ beam was about 2 x 105 particles per second. The total charge-changing collision cross section of N5+ in water vapor was determined as a function of ion energy. The improvement in vacuum necessary to increase the N5+ beam at least tenfold was calculated. The N6+ total cross section is probably smaller than that of N5+ at the higher energies.Keywords
This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
- Experimental Electron-Transfer Cross Sections for Collisions of Oxygen Ions in Argon, Nitrogen, and Helium at Energies of 7-40 MeVPhysical Review A, 1971
- Princeton-Pennsylvania Accelerator: End of an Era in Particle PhysicsScience, 1971
- ELECTRON CAPTURE AND LOSS BY FAST IONS IN ATOMIC COLLISIONSSoviet Physics Uspekhi, 1965
- Electron Capture and Loss by Ions in GasesPhysical Review B, 1955