Abstract
The prospect of achieving multi-stage electrostatic accelerators with constant terminal potentials of 50 MV for attaining heavy particle energies in the BeV range was envisaged and urged by Van de Graaff for many years. The High Voltage Engineering Corporation has advanced these concepts by progressively increasing the voltage and gradient capabilities of its accelerators and by providing improved tube, resistor and column components for upgrading existing systems. Test results are reported on the XTU 2-stage tandem which has insulated over 20 MV on its terminal and 16 MV with recently installed acceleration tubes. A prospective design for a 40 MV Van de Graaff is outlined and the comparative merits and problems of insulating and conductive charge carriers for such systems are discussed.
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