SF6 Insulation-Gas System for Venerable HVE AN2500 Van de Graaff Accelerator

The original insulating-atmosphere gas system of a VdG accelerator, that used a mixture of N2, CO2 and a comparatively small addition of SF6, was replaced by a simpler SF6-only system. The new system allows reaching higher energy of accelerated particles and simplifies overall maintanence.

Video of the working system

FIG. 1: Video of the working system.

Contacts

Acknowlegments

The accelerator and the laboratory are operated and upgraded in frame of the research funding grant "VdG Research infrastructure" by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (Contract No. LM2015077).



Last update: January 2022