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In particle accelerators, a common mechanism for accelerating a charged particle beam is via copper resonant cavities in which electric and magnetic fields form a standing wave, the mode of which is designed so that the E field points along the axis of the accelerator, producing forward acceleration of the particles when in the correct phase.
The maximum electric field achievable is limited by a process known as RF breakdown. The reliable limits for various RF frequencies were tested experimentally in the 1950s by W. D. Kilpatrick.[1]
An approximate relation by least-square optimization of the data yields[2]
This relation is known as the Kilpatrick Limit.
References
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- ↑ Template:Cite book. This form apparently comes from a Los Alamos note:
- T. J. Boyd, Jr., Kilpatrick's criterion, Los Alamos Group AT-1 report AT-1:82-28, February 12, 1982.