Stephen Brooks 🦆 on Nostr: Last week I looked inside Brookhaven National Laboratory's tandem Van de Graaff ...

Last week I looked inside Brookhaven National Laboratory's tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. The platform in the middle is called the terminal and can be raised to 15 million volts while surrounded by insulating SF6 gas (unusual to see an accelerator large enough to climb inside!) I wanted to see if there was room for an ultra-cold ion source, which could create nanometre-scale ion beams once accelerated by the Tandem. #physics #accelerators