Model of a particle accelerator





Some time ago I had to conduct a presentation about a special kind of particle accelerators.

In order to give a simple example I built a little model of a two staged particle accelerator

out of a old computer mouse's ball, two coils and a CD-spindle's base plate:

The metal ball represents a charged particle of any kind.

The two coils represent the drift-tubes which most accelerators use.

So every time the particle (ball) crosses the drift-tubes (coils) it gets accelerated:



















