Physical parameters of electrostatic accelerated microparticles
Marchenko O. M.1, Bednyakov S. A.1, Avtorin S. S.1, Dzagurov O. B.1, Akimov N. B.1, Glotov O. P.1, Chechenin N. G.1
1Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow, Russia
Email: oleg.marchenko.99@bk.ru

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A system has been launched at the Moscow State University Research Institute of Nuclear Physics based on an electrostatic injector and accelerator, which makes it possible to produce a beam of accelerated metal microparticles with speeds up to 3 km/s. As part of the system, a hardware and software complex has been developed that implements a time-of-flight technique for recording the values of the physical parameters of each individual particle. The distributions of the physical parameters of accelerated particles of two different aluminum powders are obtained. Keywords: solid particle accelerator, electrostatic injector, macrometeorites, charge-sensitive amplifier.
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