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September 2, 1993
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This file shared with KeelyNet courtesy of George Dahlberg.
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THE DESKTOP SSC
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Scientific Speculation By Frederic B. Jueneman, FAIC
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From Research & Development - Oct. 1987 Pg. 15
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Recent news about the 53 mile circumference superconducting super
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collider has me wondering if particle physicists aren't rubbing
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shoulders with the astronomers. It seems that for decades the
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astronomers were the only group who had a firm grasp on megalomania.
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Even more recent news has me thinking that solid state physicists
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are sharing some schnapps with the genetic and recombinant DNA
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community in contemplating the minuscule.
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Within the past year the phenomenon of superconductivity has
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captured the imagination of the global scientific community, and
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the media in turn have infected the public at large with the
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excitement of these viral discoveries. And now solid state
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aficionados are saying that future superconducting super colliders
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could share space on your desk next to the IBM "PC".
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As a practicing chemist for the better part of the past 30 years, my
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own druthers have tended towards the "small is beautiful" dictum
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because, as an analysts, my focus has been most naturally on atoms
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and molecules. Of course, I hasten to add that these Notebook
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entries have acknowledged from time to time somewhat larger
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scenarios than the four walls of a laboratory. But, the point being
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that I have built in empathy with the solid-staters.
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Last month I reiterated a 15 year old thought which suggested that
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an isotopically pure hexagonal crystal would present to the view of
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an electron - or perhaps another charged particle - a coherent
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matrix of tunnels.
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And if an electron beam were passed through this matrix symmetry,
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the array of atoms in the crystal lattice would act as waveguides,
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and what we would have then is the makings of a solid state
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accelerator. In other words, a merging of particle and solid-state
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physics.
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For some years prior to 1972 I had been convinced that hexagonal
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crystals would exhibit some physical property that would be unique
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and separate from that of cubic crystals, which claim
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superconductivity as one of their own unique physical
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characteristics.
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This new physical property of hexagonal symmetry might be something
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never before observed in electron behavior in a lattice matrix. And
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after a broad, albeit sketchy, search of the literature, I concluded
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that this new characteristic might well be an enhancement of
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coherent dia-magnetism, or - in current parlance - dia-magnetic
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amplification by stimulated electron emission and phased array
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channeling. (However, it's admitted that the acronym daseepac
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doesn't have the selling power of laser.)
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The history of channeling in crystals goes back to 1912, when
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Johannes Stark of Germany suggested that hydrogen ions would
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penetrate deeper into a lattice when directed from certain favorable
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angles.
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But Stark's concept toward elucidating the structure of matter was
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overshadowed by the coincidental discovery of x-ray diffraction by
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another German physicist, Max von Laue. And it wasn't until some 40
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years later that Stark's idea ushered in the era of ion implantation
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in solid-state devices, where the theory was put into practical use.
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In the March 1968 issue of Scientific American, Werner Brandt of NYU
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described experiments with channeled proton beams, experiments which
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were originally initiated by Karl Ove Nielsen and associates at
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Aarus, Denmark, in 1964. These experiments showed that "channeling
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resulted from the correlated deflections of the particles in the
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electrostatic-force field of the orderly array of atoms in the
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crystals". Resonances were found at distinct proton energy levels
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and, as the energy was increased, the gamma-ray yield rose in the
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channeling direction.
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Late in 1979 it was announced that Fermilab physicist Tim Toohig,
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and Edward Tsyganov of Dubna, near Moscow, collaborated on sending
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proton beams through channels in monocrystals grown in a
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microgravity space environment by cosmonauts. They found that if the
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crystals were also very carefully bent, the proton beam - of tera
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electron volt (10E12) energy - would follow the curvature.
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This was the first demonstrated example of the waveguide nature of
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individual atoms in a coherent crystal lattice, and the initiating
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experiment into the era of solid-state accelerators. But the
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silicon, germanium, and silver crystals used at Dubna, and grown in
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the Salyut space laboratory, are commonly cubic in form, and
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therefore the lattice structure symmetry may not be critical to the
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process of channeling as I had once thought, although the hexagonal
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form should enhance this effect.
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Also, late in 1979, a team of scientists from Lawrence Livermore
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National Lab, Stanford Univ., and Oak Ridge National Lab reported
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the tunable channeling of x radiation by an intense beam of
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electrons, using a silicon crystal.
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The x rays are generated by the electrons as they undulate through
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the channel lattice, and the x rays, themselves, are emitted only in
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the direction of electron travel.
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And what happens to the atoms in the crystal matrix during these
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high-energy excursions by subatomic particles? Part of the answer
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might be contained in a note I wrote to myself almost 20 years ago,
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in that "orientation of orbital electrons in a phased matrix may
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radically change the structure of the crystal array by altering the
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quantum effects of the binding energy. The crystal may become fluid
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in a quantum sense while retaining the relatively solid structure of
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a crystal matrix."
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And what this means is that there should be altered states of matter
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which are metastable while high-density particle fluxes are passing
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through, probably pulsating at high frequencies with a concomitant
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distortion of space and time within discrete interatomic volumes.
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Taken as a whole, this is a mass effect, whereas the phenomenon of
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super-conductivity is a peripheral effect which does not penetrate
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very much below the surface of a conductor. And as a mass effect,
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it would take full advantage of incremental space described by
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interatomic voids, whereas contemporary particle accelerators
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utilize rather large evacuated chambers which approach free space in
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volume.
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A desktop super collider might not be de rigueur for everyone's
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office, but it would be a mite less expensive than the 17 mile
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diameter variety and one heck of a lot more fun with which to play
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around.
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