V-P X B-ACCELERATION EXPERIMENTS USING DISK-LOADED ACCELERATOR

The v(p) x B linear electron accelerator applied to the conventional d isk-loaded accelerator has been demonstrated. An energy gain of 5.4 ke V for electrons is observed from an incident energy of 42 keV in a 0.5 m accelerator, when an external magnetic field of 1.1 G is applied. T he energy gain is proportional to B-1.5 until the electrons are detrap ped from the wave trough. The results of experiments and theories are in fairly good agreement.