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Description: | G.1986.111 Hunterian Museum (typed on a white self adhesive label, removed). MANU Unsigned. circa 1948 DES after VEKSLER and MCMILLAN. 1945 This do-nut was used in a 30 MeV synchrotron obtained from Harwell, circa 1951, to allow research to be done whilst the 330 MeV machine, was being built by Metropolitan Vickers Ltd. The completion of this machine, which was to have been commissioned in 1951, was delayed until 1954. Both machines were housed in a new, Basil Spence designed, extension to the Kelvin building which was completed in 1951.
The 30 MeV machine was used for nuclear photodisintegration studies in association with cloud chambers. The source of photons was usually a klystron for this range of instrument. The photons were accelerated round the do-nut by powerful electromagnets. The magnetic field also allowed them to be stored there until required.. The copper tubing and bronze fittings were for dissipation of heat by cooling water also for the attachment to a vacuum pump and the klystron etc. The 330 mev machine was replaced in 1960 by a linear accelerator built at the University's reactor centre at East Kilbride which was closed in 2001.
This example has no copper tubing or bronze fittings as GLAHM 113460. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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