Hi Roy.

25-Nov-03 12:27:58, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Charles Angelich


 RJT> Charles Angelich wrote in a message to Tom Walker:

 CA>> I remember reading about a cyclotron in Texas(?) that we had
 CA>> almost completed and no one wanted to finish it. Was supposed to
 CA>> assist in making plasma generators possible some day. Haven't
 CA>> heard much about that lately but it sounded promising if they
 CA>> could get it to work.

 RJT> Would that be the SSC?  The thing that was *miles* across?  They
 RJT> actually started to build it,  and then congress cut funding,  as
 RJT> I understand it..

something that doesn't strike me as being a "cyclotron", cyclotrons are
compact devices (will fit in a large room) where an RF electric filed and a
magnetic field causes charged particles to spiral between two hollow
electrodes.

I forget what tie correct name for those ring accelerators is.

 -=> Bye <=-

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