Powering a Particle Accelerator

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How do you power a particle accelerator firing beams of protons 50 times a second into a heavy metal target? The ISIS neutron and muon source provides a near constant stream of particles for a huge range of research uses. Take a look at what it takes to keep a decades-old particle accelerator running.
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Building up enough power in a proton beam to pull neutrons out of atoms requires a huge amount of energy. To efficiently power the machines, the research facility at ISIS relies on a custom electrical system that uses a resonance circuit to establish the strong magnetic fields needed many times per second. This system, however, is built in-part around rigid technology that was inherited from a previous machine when ISIS was built.
We take a look at the major engineering project to upgrade the power system of a particle accelerator, and see what it takes to keep control of a machine this complex.
ISIS is owned and operated by the UK government, through the Science and Technology Facilities Council, as a major resource and facility for UK researchers. This video is supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
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  • @Czeckie
    @Czeckie5 жыл бұрын

    the maintenance and electrical engineering side of things are usually not talked about. What a great addition!

  • @DoRC
    @DoRC7 жыл бұрын

    That was great but I wish it was about 3 times longer. I was really enjoying learning the little details. Maybe a directors cut for the super geeky?

  • @KillerSol
    @KillerSol7 жыл бұрын

    This is pretty incredible outreach. High quality for sure. Well done RI!

  • @wethecurious
    @wethecurious7 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely fascinating! - Ross

  • @osenseijedi
    @osenseijedi7 жыл бұрын

    What is sad is that people think of terrorists when they here ISIS, wouldn't be great if they think of particle accelerator?

  • @krashd

    @krashd

    7 жыл бұрын

    Imagine you were one of the many women called Isis? That's why I wish news channels would start calling that group daesh or just 'terrorist scum' rather than legitimising them with a name. It's weird, you never hear North Korea referred to as the DPRK but the news will always give courtesy to daesh.

  • @frankbeans2901

    @frankbeans2901

    3 жыл бұрын

    They do now

  • @Thomcat
    @Thomcat7 жыл бұрын

    Really awesome segment.

  • @XXXoXXoXXXX
    @XXXoXXoXXXX7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the tour.

  • @alecmileman5267
    @alecmileman52677 жыл бұрын

    Friend: What do you do for a job? Me: I work for ISIS

  • @stickystick_stick

    @stickystick_stick

    7 жыл бұрын

    i used to go to a summer day camp called ices

  • @uchihahikaku1630

    @uchihahikaku1630

    7 жыл бұрын

    I understand it's a joke but what they've done isn't funny and i think those who have been killed by them deserve a little respect. I'm not saying anything i simply just wanted to point that out. Lest we forget...

  • @skwisgaarskwigelf331

    @skwisgaarskwigelf331

    7 жыл бұрын

    International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) HIIIGHWAY TO THEEE... DANGER ZOOONE!!!

  • @uchihahikaku1630

    @uchihahikaku1630

    7 жыл бұрын

    Alec Anderson Get used to people like me too....

  • @uchihahikaku1630

    @uchihahikaku1630

    7 жыл бұрын

    Alec Anderson You're not the only in the world with an opinion.

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor54627 жыл бұрын

    6:50 My dad worked for 25 years at an oil refinery. He would really understand this. He called it "turn over" Basically on a regular basis (every 5 years or so) they shut the refinery down and fixed everything. It was a VERY busy time.

  • @chriswilloughby48
    @chriswilloughby482 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou for posting! wow!

  • @MrChrismccooey
    @MrChrismccooey7 жыл бұрын

    Great Video!

  • @getmilked6216
    @getmilked62167 жыл бұрын

    I love the video, I wish you could do more of these!

  • @TheRoyalInstitution

    @TheRoyalInstitution

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! We've got a few more short films like this coming in the next month or two, so keep your eyes out :)

  • @jessstuart7495
    @jessstuart74956 жыл бұрын

    I wish they explained a little more about the electrical system. Are they essentially using a 50Hz tank (LC resonator) circuit for each magnet's power supply?

  • @boomboomfox1
    @boomboomfox14 жыл бұрын

    what is the old choke called, I wanted to know more about it?

  • @jackpullen3820
    @jackpullen38207 жыл бұрын

    Upgrade old tech, good work Ri...

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor54627 жыл бұрын

    How many g's do the protons feel as they go around at top speed?

  • @dirfgiS
    @dirfgiS7 жыл бұрын

    How come I have never heard of this accelerator before? It sounds and seems very complicated, yet very useful. Great video!

  • @yousefibrahim4069
    @yousefibrahim40697 жыл бұрын

    I wish I can work in such places.

  • @sent4dc
    @sent4dc7 жыл бұрын

    If I were them I'd probably change the name or reshuffle that acronym. Otherwise I'd love to find them online but I'm afraid to Google it....

  • @cristianbataturescu5695
    @cristianbataturescu5695 Жыл бұрын

    What is used for ?

  • @uchihahikaku1630
    @uchihahikaku16307 жыл бұрын

    Pretty cool. So i imagine the users at the end of the beam lines are share holders? Haha

  • @BoxOfCurryos
    @BoxOfCurryos7 жыл бұрын

    Its quite tragic that they are named ISIS. It's not particularly in good taste in these current days

  • @3enjoy3

    @3enjoy3

    7 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunate, yes, but they shouldn't have to change when the name or acronym has existed in all its innocent forms for hundreds of years.

  • @hemlatamhatre1150
    @hemlatamhatre11507 жыл бұрын

    Hello royal institutions my Name is hardik I wanna ask you Question that how a proton is produced I will expect that you will give me a reply as soon as you can thank you

  • @krashd

    @krashd

    7 жыл бұрын

    Great Expectations.

  • @sidd0405
    @sidd04053 жыл бұрын

    3:46 Looks like they tricked those people telling that they are going to take photos by rather took the videos

  • @imnotacat5299
    @imnotacat52997 жыл бұрын

    I don't understand how they isolate protons, like where do they get the protons.? how do they separate protons from an atom.?

  • @peterminsch3279

    @peterminsch3279

    6 жыл бұрын

    df same

  • @jessstuart7495

    @jessstuart7495

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ionized hydrogen.

  • @imnotacat5299

    @imnotacat5299

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jess Stuart so that take away the electron from hydrogen.? Is ionized hydrogen the exact same as just a single a proton in a vacuum , or is there something different that I'm missing.?

  • @EugeneKhutoryansky
    @EugeneKhutoryansky7 жыл бұрын

    You might not want to mention where you work while passing through an airport. Seriously though, why shoot protons into a heavy metal, instead of shooting deuterium into tritium? Although the deuterium atoms are harder to accelerate than protons because of their heavier mass, the deuterium-tritium collisions produce lots of neutrons.

  • @topQuark12

    @topQuark12

    7 жыл бұрын

    Maybe it is because tritium is much more expensive? Also I think it it would be very hard to contain a gas as a target for particles to hit

  • @EugeneKhutoryansky

    @EugeneKhutoryansky

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Tat Wong, you can implant tritium inside a solid target. I have worked with neutron generators that used the deuterium tritium collisions. Though, these were small linear accelerators.

  • @drsuziesheehy

    @drsuziesheehy

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hi, thanks for the comment - spallation is the process used to generate the neutrons because ISIS is a fast pulsed machine - meaning they can create a time structure of the neutrons which is useful for studying all kinds of dynamic processes.

  • @robertmcgreevy9605

    @robertmcgreevy9605

    7 жыл бұрын

    D-T neutron generators are widely used in industry, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_generator, but they are just not powerful enough to be used to study materials at the atomic scale. ISIS produces more than a million times more neutrons.

  • @Cholseyroyal

    @Cholseyroyal

    7 жыл бұрын

    Originally a uranium target was used but there were problems with the uranium covering distorting and affecting the cooling circuits. Spallation generated 30 neutrons per proton. Subsequently due to the cost of replacing the uranium targets tungsten or tantalum was used. The neutrons per proton was considerably less. Remember the target is subject to 100KW of power that has to be removed!

  • @jjk2one
    @jjk2one6 жыл бұрын

    this is a high tech factory

  • @Dthenn
    @Dthenn7 жыл бұрын

    Audio isn't synched with the video. :/

  • @k1ngjulien_
    @k1ngjulien_7 жыл бұрын

    I wonder on how many government lists I will land on by saying that I want to join ISIS now?

  • @tabaks
    @tabaks7 жыл бұрын

    Whose bum uncle that lives under the bridge synced the sound for this clip?

  • @ryannovakovic5046
    @ryannovakovic50467 жыл бұрын

    Don't let it blow up wouldn't want any metahumans running around lol #theflash

  • @GamerVincent

    @GamerVincent

    5 жыл бұрын

    Phoenix ikr

  • @hilasdad9148
    @hilasdad91487 жыл бұрын

    The Royal Institution: We will teach your kids that ISIS is cool!

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor54627 жыл бұрын

    Does the Islamic State know what you are doing?

  • @user-lp3ew1xb5u
    @user-lp3ew1xb5u7 жыл бұрын

    This should've given a brief amount of attention to the results of the science involved. What does "save babies" and "make better airplanes" mean - something slightly less broad?

  • @raykent3211

    @raykent3211

    7 жыл бұрын

    Quite. A very surprising sweeping claim with no hint of justification offered. More in the spirit of advertising than public understanding of science.

  • @WrenAkula

    @WrenAkula

    7 жыл бұрын

    It has to be broad; such research isn't done for a specific application, but for a more complete understanding of our reality. This naturally leads to improvements in a multitude of fields and an incalculable number of applications. Though a lot of those advances happen years or decades after the research is conducted.

  • @TheRoyalInstitution

    @TheRoyalInstitution

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Krk Patterson Thanks for your comment! There's lots of information about some of the great science research that goes on at the facility on their webpage here if you'd like to know more: www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/science/science.html With this film we wanted to focus on the often-neglected practical and engineering aspects of the accelerator itself, but keep an eye out for the other films and lectures in this series over the next few weeks for some more detail on a few direct impacts of the science associated with particle accelerators, and their impact for society :)

  • @beachboardfan9544

    @beachboardfan9544

    7 жыл бұрын

    So what is the goal or goals of Isis do they have different interests and experiments than other particle accelerators?

  • @CaliforniaMISC
    @CaliforniaMISC7 жыл бұрын

    Please change name to something else

  • @JaredJeyaretnam

    @JaredJeyaretnam

    7 жыл бұрын

    No, they were here first

  • @Snipersight00
    @Snipersight007 жыл бұрын

    How many Muslims high five your engineers, while walking outside with those Black ISIS t-shirts? Good job you don't need to rely on charitable donations for this project. Would be an interesting experiment on the public reaction to people walking down the high street with buckets asking for support for ISIS, they need a new choke.

  • @fjs1111
    @fjs11119 ай бұрын

    or.. *EAT A TON OF BEANS!*

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