At 12:05 PM 2/8/5, Frederick Sparber wrote: >Actually 50 times the minimum is available with a 0.4 millimeter diameter beam >from a 150 Kev beam at 0.1 amps continuous operation.
Yep, using your 0.1 amps instead of your 3.10e18 electrons per second I get 6.24x10^17 electrons/sec. So: (6.24x10^17 electrons/sec)/(Pi*(0.02cm)^2) = 4.97x10^20 electrons/(cm^2*s), which is indeed about 50 times the minimum. If what you suggest, the continuous mode, actually works, it would be a very good thing. If yield does increase in proportion to beam intensity (not an established fact in this case, only a possibility suggested by Kamada's experiments) it still strikes me as better to run in a pulsed mode, even if it is a fast cycled pulsed mode, which in practical effect would appear to be continuous operation. If your continuous operation approach does not work, and confinement time and/or pressure are important variables to net yield, then breaching at least an outermost confinement barrier with x-rays still seems to be an approach worth developing. The main problem with the pulsed x-ray confinement approach I think is that the remnants of the confinement structure become neutron radiated ejecta. Regards, Horace Heffner
