Summary of the second international conference on electrostatic accelerator technology

2014 This summary reviews the information and new results presented at this Conference and compares the present overall performance of the major electrostatic accelerators to that at the time of the last Conference, four years ago. The advances in electrostatic accelerator technology in the four year period are discussed in terms of accelerator tube improvements, electrostatic charging system improvements, ion source developments, and other aspects of machine design and operation. REVUE DE PHYSIQUE APPLIQUÉE TOME 12, OCTOBRE 1977, PAGE Ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed a pleasure and honor to be the summary speaker of this Conference. We have now reached the end of the Conference on Electrostatic Accelerator Technology even though there is an additional session this afternoon which 1 strongly recommend you all attend. This afternoon we will be talking about boosters for electrostatic accelerators that will increase the energy over what is available out of the electrostatic accelerator. These boosters take the form of linear accelerators or cyclotrons and then either conventional or superconducting of both varieties. When an electrostatic accelerator is used to inject another accelerator as a booster, it is no longer a subject of electrostatic accelerator technology. The accelerator is simply lowered in energy until it operates with essentially 100 % reliability as an ion source for the booster accelerator. Its operation is no longer of interest in electrostatic accelerator technology because all the problems will lie with the booster accelerator. It will be much easier to get the necessary energy out of the booster rather than operating the electrostatic accelerator at its extreme limit which is the normal operational mode when used singly as research accelerator. It is important that all the members of this Conference be knowledgable about the current status and situation with booster accelerators and we will be updated on these matters by the speakers this afternoon. It is entirely possible that by the time of the next Electrostatic Accelerator Conference, four years from now, the trend will be towards (*) Work supported by the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration. the utilization of booster machines and abandonment of the technology of electrostatic accelerators in favor of their use as reliable ion sources for other kinds of