Chapter 558: Magnetic Confinement Plasma Processing Device
Looking through the meeting report document in his hand, Xu Chuan's eyes fell on the planning investigation report on "high-energy particle weapons" in the high-energy electromagnetic strategic plan.
Friends who often read science fiction novels or science fiction movies will probably know this very well.
The so-called particle beam weapon uses an accelerator to accelerate particles such as protons to a high speed of tens of thousands to 200,000 kilometers per second, and then forms a very thin particle beam through electrodes or magnetic beams and launches it to bombard the target.
weapons.
However, when talking about this type of "sci-fi weapon", many people cannot distinguish between lasers and particle beams, and there are also many friends who confuse particle beams and ion beams.
Indeed, their visual effects in science fiction works are similar - colored beams.
However, laser weapons and particle weapons are indeed different, and there is a big difference between them.
The former is a weapon that uses high-energy lasers to accurately shoot long-distance targets or to defend against missiles, etc. It relies on a powerfully focused high-energy beam.
The latter launches high-energy particles accelerated by an accelerator, causing damage by the impact of high-energy particles, and is a kinetic energy weapon.
Of course, a few particle weapons rely on the special properties of the particles they emit (such as high internal energy neutrons) and can use energy to cause shock wave damage.
Of course, the main plan of this report is not the difference between the two, but how to manufacture and use such weapons for defense or attack.
The weapon in the document consists of a particle accelerator, a high-energy pulse power supply, a target identification and tracking system, a precise aiming and positioning system, and a command and control system.
The accelerator as the core generates high-energy particles with the assistance of a power source, gathers them into dense beams, and accelerates the particles to a speed that can destroy the target.
The target identification and tracking system composed of search and tracking radar, infrared detection device and microwave camera is responsible for detecting targets.
After the target signal is analyzed and processed by the ultra-high-speed computer and the data processing device on the weapon and the error is corrected, it is transmitted to the command and control system and the accelerated particle beam is emitted.
Thereby destroying nuclear bombs, missiles and other weapons controlled by electronic equipment and chips, causing them to fail and be destroyed.
Of course, Xu Chuan's focus was not on the weapon itself, but on a branch investigation included in the meeting report.
In this branch investigation, I don’t know if it was a researcher or an expert who came up with an interesting idea.
This idea was based on a miniaturized controllable nuclear fusion reactor. He conceived a device similar to a divertor.
This device can guide high-energy helium particles out of the reactor chamber, then accelerate and control them through a strong magnetic field, and finally use a neutralizer to eliminate the charge and guide them into a scalpel-like weapon to target medium and long-range equipment.
or weapons for direct cutting and destruction.
Its principle is similar to that of 'water jet', which is the so-called 'high-pressure water jet cutting' technology.
To put it simply, garnet, emery and other abrasives are mixed into high-pressure water to assist cutting, thereby greatly improving the cutting speed and cutting thickness of the water jet.
The idea is to directly destroy the physical object by using 'heavy high-energy particles', which is somewhat similar to the destruction of the first wall by high-energy neutrons during the deuterium-tritium fusion reaction.
However, the latter is not controlled, while the former is controlled.
Theoretically, this weapon is supported by basic theory, but it is very difficult to realize it.
For example, how to control the width of the particle beam so that it can be shot out one by one like emery in a 'water jet' to form a cutting effect, such as how to eliminate the chargeability of heavy particles while maintaining its destruction of atomic chains between atoms,
And it can cause extreme damage in a short period of time and other problems that cannot be solved for the time being.
But as soon as this idea came into view, Xu Chuan thought of something else, or another technology.
Magnetic confinement plasma processing technology!
Based on this idea, a microwave heating device is used to raise the temperature of inert heavy particles, a strong magnetic field is formed through improved superconductor materials for control, and then the inert heavy particles at tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of degrees are heated through alignment technology.
Arrange atoms and cut the equipment.
If combined with a CNC device, theoretically speaking, any part that can be processed by a five-axis system can also be formed in one go using this device.
Theoretically speaking, the materials cut by this atomic knife are undoubtedly extremely precise.
However, the disadvantage is that the energy carried by ultra-high temperature single atoms may be absorbed by the material itself, causing the structure and properties of the material to change.
If this problem is solved, then this technology will undoubtedly completely replace the current high-precision CNC machining machine tools.
After all, no matter how powerful a high-precision CNC machine tool is, it is impossible to achieve ultra-high-precision cutting and control at the atomic or molecular level.
Thinking about it, Xu Chuan picked up the ballpoint pen used to take meeting minutes from the conference table, flipped through the meeting report in his hand, found a relatively blank area and began to study it.
At this moment, he had almost forgotten or didn't care that he was in a very high-level internal meeting.
Compared with the outer space spacecraft that others talked about, he was more interested in this magnetically confined plasma ultra-precision processing technology.
Besides, the planning of the space carrier has nothing to do with him. As a non-professional, he has no opinion on whether to deploy it or not. At most, he can only provide some technical support when the time comes.
However, his strange behavior also aroused the curiosity of some people in the conference room. Even the old man sitting at the head of the conference table couldn't help but take a look.
Obviously, this is probably not taking meeting minutes. After all, there is no need for him to take meeting minutes, and it is impossible to assign national defense-related tasks to him.
Sitting next to Xu Chuan, Qin Anguo naturally noticed the movement here. He quietly leaned his body sideways and glanced at the blank report without being affected.
Mathematical symbols, text annotations and rough patterns came into his eyes on the clean white paper. Although he couldn't understand what these things were, he could still understand some of the key words on them.
Inert heavy particle ion confinement? Particle cutting technology?
What are you studying?
Looking at the things in the meeting report, Qin Anguo thought for a while.
Particle weapons? Or something?
Although these words looked a bit like a certain high-energy particle weapon in the conference report, he couldn't tell what this person was studying just based on these simple characters.
After all, the things he studies are basically beyond the understanding of most people.
After taking a few glances and not understanding it, Qin Anguo stopped disturbing him.
The person is here anyway, just wait until the meeting is over to get to know him better.
It must be very important or interesting to be able to let him put aside the content of the meeting to study something in a meeting of this level.
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