We are Heidi Baumgartner and Peter Heuer, a pair of high school students building a cyclotron, a type of particle accelerator, using the facilities at Jefferson National Lab in Newport News, VA. Please take a look at our site to learn more about our project.
Feel free to contact us at anisotropyx@gmail.com
August 2009 Update
We've built our first physical parts! Isn't this exciting?!
The image to the right is our RF matching network. It couples the power from a power amplifier (currently in transit from New Mexico to Virginia), to the cyclotron dee. There is also the possibility of putting a DC potential on the dee, for experimentation with improving our capillary ion source. The DC power supply is protected by an RF choke, which you can see on the back wall of the maching box.
