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Now the text tells that "By contrast, protons with slightly different energies arriving earlier or later will be accelerated or decelerated so that they stay close to the desired energy. In this way, the particle beam is sorted into packs of protons called "bunches".
Here it refers to the main accelerating cavities of the LHC, their working principle sounds exactly like that of a klystron.
So here is my question , would it be fair to say that the LHC itself works like a giant bent/circular klystron tube?
Here is the way I understand it,
first they make the protons, then they are accelerated by linacs and "injected" into the synchrotron ring/s from where they are fed into the largest main ring?
This large main ring (the one 27km in circumference) is a circular tube with evenly spaced RF cavities working at 400Mhz and bending quadropole magnets so after enough rounds trips by the protons in the main ring they get bunched up by the cavities and accelerated to reach their maximum energy?What I gather from CERN's homepage is that initially they only had the much smaller proton synchrotron ring and then they built the larger "super proton synchrotron" which I guess was just another synchrotron but larger and more powerful and then they built the now famous 27km main ring which I gather is just another synchrotron but now on "steroids".Finally is it true that both the larger and smaller LHC rings are all synchrotrons and have the same basic function just that their size and power and parts count differ? differences in details like for example I read the smaller sps ring uses ordinary "room" temp magnets while we know the main ring uses superconducting ones.
Here it refers to the main accelerating cavities of the LHC, their working principle sounds exactly like that of a klystron.
So here is my question , would it be fair to say that the LHC itself works like a giant bent/circular klystron tube?
Here is the way I understand it,
first they make the protons, then they are accelerated by linacs and "injected" into the synchrotron ring/s from where they are fed into the largest main ring?
This large main ring (the one 27km in circumference) is a circular tube with evenly spaced RF cavities working at 400Mhz and bending quadropole magnets so after enough rounds trips by the protons in the main ring they get bunched up by the cavities and accelerated to reach their maximum energy?What I gather from CERN's homepage is that initially they only had the much smaller proton synchrotron ring and then they built the larger "super proton synchrotron" which I guess was just another synchrotron but larger and more powerful and then they built the now famous 27km main ring which I gather is just another synchrotron but now on "steroids".Finally is it true that both the larger and smaller LHC rings are all synchrotrons and have the same basic function just that their size and power and parts count differ? differences in details like for example I read the smaller sps ring uses ordinary "room" temp magnets while we know the main ring uses superconducting ones.