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This will release 1 GJ of kinetic energy into the target each second .
You want all of the electrons to be accelerated at once, but the problem is that there simply aren't enough photons coming in fast enough to get the job done. You could get more photons either by lowering the energy available for each photon while keeping the laser power constant (which will make each electron move slower) or you can increase the total power of the laser instead.If you want all 0.17 kilograms (1.866 x 1029) of electrons to be accelerated to 99.876% the speed of light in one second, then the laser will need to provide 10 MeV photons at a rate of 1.866 x 1029 per second. That requires a total laser power of 298,966,149 gigawatts.
"one electron for one H.E.X-ray photon"
25 micrograms accelerated to.9c.
.583 micrograms at .9c gives a kinetic energy of 21,250,350 joules
That's 21 sticks of dynamite
What happens to the track of the centre of the ball?BTW, I'm going to keep asking that question until you actually answer it.
Let’s drop the photon energy down to 1MeV , go ahead and raise the # of photons to #×10th 30th . What-ever # you use , Reply # 223 must apply . The electrons soak up 1GJ per second , and impact with 1GJ per sec. Triiiick !P.M.
Let’s drop the photon energy down to 1MeV , go ahead and raise the # of photons to #×10th 30th .
Fine , dump the reflected ~20% EMR energy out the back . 1 MeV is a much easier energy for labs to work with .P.M.
PRACTICALITY for research . By the way , you can now change the quantity to 1 Godzilla Ball of electrons .
Note-You don't let the reflected EMR "hit" , you let it escape out of the exhaust .P.M.
L-A-B W-O-R-K !The point is to make it easy to create the dang thing in the first place !P.M.