Question

State the names of electrostatic accelerators.

Answer 1

Such an accelerator is necessarily linear, and the electrostatic field can be applied to a given particle only once (unless, as in the tandem accelerator described below, the charge of the particle undergoes a change in sign).

The simplicity of concept becomes complex in execution when the electric potentialexceeds one million volts (1 megavolt, or 1 MV); these high voltages produce corona discharges and lightninglike sparks outside the accelerator, which dissipate the potential needed to accelerate the particles.