| Objective | to have students learn the fundamentals of particle beam engineering: |
| They study the production and acceleration of charged particle beams, and the scattering by Coulomb field, the typical interaction of the charged particles with matter. | |
| What is done? | demonstration of Rutherford scattering: |
| Using 0.3-3 MeV proton beams, incident on a several-ten nm thick gold on a crbon film, they measure angular dependences of the energy and the yield of scattered protons. |