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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!concert!uvaarpa!murdoch!kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU!crb7q
  3. From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
  4. Subject: Re: ELECTRON HELIX : ITS POWER AND POSSIBLITIES
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep2.135558.7756@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  6. Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
  7. Organization: University of Virginia
  8. References: <1992Sep1.121501.613@ualr.edu> <12950073@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>
  9. Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:55:58 GMT
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  12. In article <12950073@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> ric@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Ric Peregrino) writes:
  13. >
  14. >Regarding the electron helix.
  15. >
  16. >This won't work.
  17. >
  18. >You can't make a helix with magnetic fields which produces a bigger 
  19. >magnetic field than the sources. 
  20. >
  21. >You can't accelerate with a magnetic field; F = Q V x B.
  22.  
  23.      "Particles within a stochastic - or chaotic - web in 
  24.      phase space can be accelerated to high energies even by
  25.      weak magnetic fields."  A.A. Chernikov /etal, Nature 326:559 (1987).
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  27.                               dale bass
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  32. C. R. Bass                                           crb7q@virginia.edu
  33. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  34. University of Virginia
  35. Charlottesville, Virginia                            (804) 924-7926
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