METHOD OF ACCELERATING MACROPARTICLES Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC H05H15/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: in the present method, macroparticles are accelerated by the field of an electromagnetic pulse moving on a helical structure. Power is fed to a helical waveguide and tapped from it on a coaxial cable through wave impedance matchers. The electromagnetic wave is slowed down both owing to geometric properties of the helical structure itself and medium filling, having higher permittivity ε (water, barium titanate), of the region between the helical structure and the shield. The accelerated macroparticles have a cylindrical shape with cylinder diametre d_sh=2 mm, and length of the conical part l_cone=13 mm and overall length of l=300 mm. The cylinders are pre-accelerated to velocity V_in=1 km/s using a gas-dynamic method. The macroparticles are irradiated with a beam of electrons from an electron accelerator. A pulse which accelerates macroparticles in the longitudinal direction is synchronously transmitted into the helical waveguide with injection of macroparticles.

EFFECT: higher rate of gaining energy by macroparticles and creating conditions for macroparticles to penetrate the atmosphere without fatal loss of velocity when the accelerator is placed horizontally.

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