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Electrophysics, electron and ion beams, physics of accelerators

Effect of multiple contactless rotations of charged particles in a hollow circular glass ring

M. A. Kumakhov, R. I. Tegaev

Institute for Roentgen Optics, Moscow, 125315, Russia

Abstract: Experimental results concerning the existence of a new physical effect of multiple (many-millioned) rotations of charged particles in a circular hollow electrified glass ring are reported for the first time. Experiments are performed for electron and ion beams. A theoretical model of the interaction of particles with the electrified channel wall is proposed. The effect of acceleration of particles in a circle in which an electrode at a low potential of $\sim$ 2 kV is fixed is discovered experimentally. Particles are accelerated in this case to hundreds of kilovolts. Intense radiation in the hard X-ray and $\gamma$ ranges is generated as a result of interaction of accelerated particles with a thin tungsten filament. A number of important applications of the multiple rotation effect are briefly discussed.

Received: 02.10.2012

 English version: Technical Physics, 2013, 83:6, 919–922

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