Linear Accelerators
Linear Accelerators are used to either create particle beams and increase their energy and focus or to increase the energy and focus of an existing particle beam.
Linear Accelerators are a cuboid of Accelerator Casings or Glass that must be 5 wide. Like all Accelerators they require Coolant vent in input and output modes and an Energy Port. There must be a continuous line of Accelerator Beams down the centre. Where the beams meet the casing there must be an Accelerator Ion source (or Accelerator Beam Port in input mode for using an existing beam) at one end and an Accelerator Beam Port at the other.
Pictured is a empty Linear Accelerator.
Inside the Linear Accelerator there can be 2 types of structure A Radio Frequency (RF) Cavity or a Quadrupole Magnet. See Accelerators for details.
For Linear Accelerator to function it needs to be cooled below its maxim operating temperature (see Accelerators for details) and must be supplied enough power.
To create a new particle beam with an ion source you must supply a source item into the Accelerator Ion Source for example a canister of hydrogen. The item will be used up after a certain amount of time while the accelerator is running so it must be continually replaced for the accelerator to continue functioning. Note: For canisters and cells it will give back the empty version, to remove these you can use an Accelerator Port to access the ion sources inventory with pipes. To Start the Linear Accelerator just give the controller a redstone signal. Note: this will start the power usage which can be quite high and increase the heating to the max heating.
The output particle energy can be controlled with the strength of the redstone signal according to E=EmaxSr/15 where Sr is the redstone strength. If a redstone strength of 15 (max) is applied to the controller it will output the maximum energy anything less than 15 it will output the corresponding fraction of the maximum energy for example a redstone strength of 2 is 2/15= 13.3% of the max energy.
The resulting Particle Energy is calculated using Emax= E0 +|q|V where E0 is the starting energy (normally 0 for an Ion source), q is the particles charge and V is the accelerators voltage which is the sum of all the RF Cavities (the structure not the block) voltages.
The Ion source must be placed at one end of the beam pointing inwards. Its job is to create the particles from items and put them into the accelerator. Items can be piped into the ion source and it also has a gui for manual access. Ion source recipes can be looked up in JEI. Here is an example:
A canister of hydrogen creates 100 pu/t of protons with a starting energy of 0 eV and starting focus of 0.