Microparticle acceleration for hypervelocity experiments by A 3.75MV van de Graaff accelerator and a 100KV electrostatic accelerator in Japan

✍ Scribed by Sunao Hasegawa; Yoshimi Hamabe; Akira Fujiwara; Hajime Yano; Sho Sasaki; Hideo Ohashi; Tohru Kawamura; Ken-Ichi Nogami; Koichi Kobayashi; Takeo Iwai; Hiromi Shibata

• Book ID: 104343673
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 587 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0734-743X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(01)00098-7

✦ Synopsis

ln-situ dust detectors have been calibrated by dust electrostatic accelerators that can accelerate projectiles to expected mass and velocity ranges of space debris and micrometeoroids. Unfortunately, In Japan, there was no such a facility dedicated to space science research until our research group was established a few years ago. Therefore, we have developed two high voltage accelerators. One is a modified 3.