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A PREVIOUS communication1 proposed the use of a helical slow-wave structure to accelerate protons up to 20 MeV. An experimental section of this type of accelerator has now been constructed at this Laboratory.
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Chick, D. R., and Petrie, D. P. R., Nature, 168, 782 (1951).
Chick, D. R., and Petrie, D. P. R., Proc. Inst. Elect. Eng., B, 103, 8, 132 (1956).
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CHICK, D., PETRIE, D., KEITH-WALKER, D. et al. An Experimental Proton Linear Accelerator using a Helical Waveguide. Nature 180, 432 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180432a0
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