The Georgia PEAcH: A Portable Electrostatic Accelerator

In collaboration with the University of North Georgia, we

are constructing a portable electrostatic ion accelerator 

at Georgia College.  It will use a model  2JA066280 R.F. ion 

source from National Electrostatics Corporation to produce 

ions from gaseous elements and a model AU-100N1 100 kV 

power supply to produce the accelerating voltage.  The linear 

accelerator  is less than 2 meters in length. The beam 

energy will be roughly determined by the acceleration voltage.

The accelerator will be tested

 through measurements of the 17 MeV γ-ray

produced from the ⁷Li(p,γ)⁸Be reaction. 

Low energy proton-induced fusion reactions are envisioned 

for both pure and applied physics research.