386 results about "Particle accelerator" patented technology

The invention concerns a device (10) for regulating the intensity of a beam extracted from a particle accelerator, such as a cyclotron, used for example for protontherapy, said particles being generated from an ion source. The invention is characterized in that it comprises at least: a comparator (90) determining a difference ε between a digital signal IR representing the intensity of the beam measured at the output of the accelerator and a setpoint value IC of the beam intensity: a Smith predictor (80) which determines on the basis of the difference ε, a correct value of the intensity of the beam IP; an inverted correspondence table (40) supplying, on the basis of the corrected value of the intensity of the beam IP, a setpoint value IA for supply arc current from the ion source (20).

The present invention provides a charged particle accelerator comprising a charged particle generating apparatus, a bending magnet, accelerating means and a vacuum duct, wherein first and second acceleration periods (22), (23) are provided, accelerating electric field of the accelerating means is applied from the start time (25) of the first acceleration period (22) until the end time of the second acceleration period (23), and bending magnetic field is applied at a fixed value during the first accelerating period while, during the second acceleration period, it is applied so as to increase until the end time of the second acceleration period. Accordingly, there is provided a compact and high power charged particle accelerator which can perform large-current acceleration.

A biomarker generator system for producing approximately one (1) unit dose of a biomarker. The biomarker generator system includes a small, low-power particle accelerator (“micro-accelerator”) and a radiochemical synthesis subsystem having at least one microreactor and / or microfluidic chip. The micro-accelerator is provided for producing approximately one (1) unit dose of a radioactive substance, such as a substance that emits positrons. The radiochemical synthesis subsystem is provided for receiving the radioactive substance, for receiving at least one reagent, and for synthesizing the approximately one (1) unit dose of a biomarker.

A device for varying the energy of a particle beam extracted from a fixed-energy particle accelerator includes a block of energy degrading material positioned in the path of the particle beam. The block of energy degrading material is preferably in the form of a ring arranged on a wheel. The ring is of a staircase configuration, having discrete steps defining a thickness between parallel entry and exit faces. According to one aspect of the invention, the block is configured so that the particle beam energy variation reaches a maximum at the edges of each step. This upper limit is also the lower limit of the next step. Thus, continuous energy variation is possible despite the fact that the thickness of the block varies in discrete steps.

The invention concerns a device (10) for regulating the intensity of a beam extracted from a particle accelerator, such as a cyclotron, used for example for protontherapy, said particles being generated from an ion source. The invention is characterised in that it comprises at least: a comparator (90) determining a difference epsilon between a digital signal IR representing the intensity of the beam measured at the output of the accelerator and a setpoint value IC of the beam intensity: a Smith predictor (80) which determines on the basis of the difference epsilon, a corrected value of the intensity of the beam IP; an inverted correspondence table (40) supplying, on the basis of the corrected value of the intensity of the beam IP a setpoint value IA for supplying arc current from the ion source (20).

A biomarker generator system for producing approximately one (1) unit dose of a biomarker. The biomarker generator system includes a small, low-power particle accelerator (“micro-accelerator”) and a radiochemical synthesis subsystem having at least one microreactor and / or microfluidic chip. The micro-accelerator is provided for producing approximately one (1) unit dose of a radioactive substance, such as a substance that emits positrons. The radiochemical synthesis subsystem is provided for receiving the radioactive substance, for receiving at least one reagent, and for synthesizing the approximately one (1) unit dose of a biomarker.

The invention relates to a Cu-Al2O3 nanometer dispersion strengthening alloy and preparation thereof. The preparation includes the steps of Cu-Al alloy vacuum smelting, pulverizing, screening, internal oxidizing, hydrogen reducing, vacuum hot pressing, canned hot extruding, etc. Comparing with oxygen-free copper, sigma of the alloy of the invention is 2 to 6 times higher that of the oxygen-free copper, the anti-annealing softening temperature is up to over 900 DEG C, the conductivity is up to 96% IACA and more. The process of the invention is simple, the prepared Cu-Al2O3 nanometer dispersion strengthening alloy has high strength, high conductivity, electrical conductivity higher than 96% IACA, and is anti-annealing and antimagnetic. The alloy can not only used for large-scale integrated circuit lead frame, manufacturing of controlled thermonuclear reaction heat sink components, and is expecially suitable for manufacturing of microwave tube grid mesh, inertial instrument sensor, particle accelerator and other high-precise parts.

An accelerator for accelerating a particle beam includes a main body having a plurality of electromagnetic cavities coupled in series, and a first coupling body having a first side cavity coupled to one of the electromagnetic cavities through a first opening, and to another of the electromagnetic cavities through a second opening, wherein the first opening and the second opening have different configurations. The accelerator further includes a pair of conductive capacitively coupled noses secured to side walls of the first coupling body, wherein the pair of noses have equal lengths.

The present invention provides a particle beam accelerator for accelerating charged particles along a traveling direction of the charged particles. The invention provides a particle beam accelerator, in which the charged particle beam deflected by spiral-shaped-deflecting electromagnet 3, is accelerated by an accelerating unit 5, the charged particle beam circulating in an annular vacuum passageway of a vacuum duct 1 a plurality of times differing in orbit. And gap 9 is formed in the accelerating unit 5 of the vacuum duct 1, and gap-constituting face of the vacuum duct 1 is formed to be perpendicular to each of the traveling directions of the charged particle beam orbiting on a first orbit and on a second orbit. In the above accelerator, vibrations of the charged particle beam can be brought under control and loss of the charged particle beam can be reduced.

The present invention provides a method for controlling nonlinear control problems within particle accelerators. This method involves first utilizing software tools to identify variable inputs and controlled variables associated with the particle accelerator, wherein at least one variable input parameter is a controlled variable. This software tool is further operable to determine relationships between the variable inputs and controlled variables. A control system that provides variable inputs to and acts on controller outputs from the software tools tunes one or more manipulated variables to achieve a desired controlled variable, which in the case of a particle accelerator may be realized as a more efficient collision.

According to the present invention, a non-isochronous magnetic field distribution in which the magnetic field increases as the radius increases is formed and a distribution of fixed-frequency accelerating RF voltage is formed, said non-isochronous magnetic field distribution and said distribution of fixed-frequency accelerating RF voltage being formed so that a harmonic number defined as a ratio of the particle revolution period to the period of the accelerating RF voltage decreases in integer for every particle revolution.

The invention relates to a premixed and pumped heavy concrete which comprises 80-93 parts by weight of heavy aggregate, 6-15 parts by weight of cement materials, 2-5 parts by weight of water, less than 0.4 part by weight of concrete additive and less than 0.01 part by weight of function regulator. The apparent density of the concrete is more than 3500kg / m<3>, the mixture has no phenomena of lamination and segregation, and the concrete has good cohesion and plasticity protection, thereby being applicable to long-distance pumping. The concrete selects a high-performance concrete admixture and can avoid the occurrence of cracks of the large-volume concrete caused by hydration heat of cement. The concrete is applicable to an anti-radiation heavy concrete engineering with the thickness of morethan 1500mm. The concrete can be widely used in shielding places of nuclear reactors, medical particle accelerators, customs inspection, scientific research laboratories and other applications of therelated nuclear industry and the radioactive isotope technology.

Some embodiments include operation of an accelerator waveguide to accelerate particles to a first energy within the waveguide, wherein a prebuncher coupled to the waveguide outputs particle bunches having a first phase, change of a phase at which particle bunches will be output from the prebuncher from the first phase to a second phase, and operation of the accelerator waveguide to accelerate particles to a second energy within the waveguide, wherein the prebuncher outputs particle bunches having the second phase. Further aspects provide change of a resonant frequency of the prebuncher from a first frequency to a second frequency. According to still further aspects, the prebuncher includes a prebuncher cavity and change of the resonant frequency comprises change of a shape of the prebuncher cavity.

This invention relates to radiofrequency (rf) cavities and couplers that comprise metallic or dielectric rods to provide specified concentration of field patterns for the operating modes in the interaction region, for applications in particle accelerators, pulsed rf power sources, amplifiers, mode converters and power couplers.

Compact, dual energy radiation scanning systems are described comprising two particle beam accelerators, each configured to accelerate charged particles to different energies, positioned parallel to a direction of movement of an object to be inspected. The accelerator may be positioned perpendicular to a plane of the conveying system, instead. Bend magnet systems bend each charged particle beam toward a respective target. Alternatively, a single dual energy accelerator capable of accelerating charged particles to at least two different energies is positioned parallel to the direction of movement of the object, or perpendicular to a plane of the conveying system. A single bend magnet system is provided to bend each accelerated charged particle beam toward the same target. The particle beams may be bent through an orbit chamber. Two separate passages may be defined through at least part of the orbit chamber, one for charged particles having each energy.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the use of a particle accelerator beam to form thin films of material from a bulk substrate. In particular embodiments, a bulk substrate having a top surface is exposed to a beam of accelerated particles. Then, a thin film of material is separated from the bulk substrate by performing a controlled cleaving process along a cleave region formed by particles implanted from the beam. To improve uniformity of depth of implantation, channeling effects are reduced by one or more techniques. In one technique, a miscut bulk substrate is subjected to the implantation, such that the lattice of the substrate is offset at an angle relative to the impinging particle beam. According to another technique, the substrate is tilted at an angle relative to the impinging particle beam. In still another technique, the substrate is subjected to a dithering motion during the implantation. These techniques may be employed alone or in combination.

A slot resonance coupled, linear standing wave particle accelerator. The accelerator includes a series of resonant accelerator cavities positioned along a beam line, which are connected by resonant azimuthal slots formed in interior walls separating adjacent cavities. At least some of the slots are resonant at a frequency comparable to the resonant frequency of the cavities. The resonant slots are offset from the axis of the accelerator and have a major dimension extending in a direction transverse to the radial direction with respect to the accelerator axis. The off-axis resonant slots function to magnetically couple adjacent cavities of the accelerator while also advancing the phase difference between the standing wave in adjacent cavities by 180 degrees in addition to the 180 degree phase difference resulting from coupling of the standing wave in each cavity with the adjacent slot, such that the signals in each cavity are in phase with one another and each cavity functions as a live accelerating cavity. The resonance frequency of the slot is the comparable to the resonance frequency of the cavities, resulting in coupling of the cavities while also eliminating the need for side-cavity or other off-axis coupling cavities.

The invention is directed to a novel foil for use as an entrance window foil during the production of [18F] by irradiation of [18O] using a particle accelerator. The foil is a high strength cobalt based alloy foil, thin film coated with an inert and refractory metal such as niobium.

A closure (10) for shielding, and selectively providing access to, the targeting assembly of a particle accelerator of a radioisotope production system. The closure (10) includes at least one, and in one embodiment, first and second doors (44, 46), for selectively covering an opening in the housing of the particle accelerator which provides access to the targeting assembly. A door mounting assembly is also provided for mounting the first and second doors (44, 46) on the housing of the particle accelerator. In one embodiment the door mounting assembly includes a frame (30) for being secured about the opening in the particle accelerator accessing the targeting assembly. Further, in one embodiment the frame (30) and first and second doors (44, 46) are fabricated of copper.

The present invention relates to a pulsed beam particle accelerator which can be used for particle radiation therapy. More particular, a device and method are provided to control the number of particles within a beam pulse. The particle accelerator comprises means for varying the number of particles within each beam pulse of said pulsed ion beam from a minimum value to a maximum value as function of the value of a beam control parameter. For each particle irradiation the required number of particles for each beam pulse is controlled by defining a value for said beam control parameter based on calibration data.

A particle accelerator system for producing a charged particle beam having pulses of charged particles that have different energy levels from pulse to pulse. The system enables independent adjustment of the RF power delivered to first and second accelerating sections thereof without adjustment of the RF power generated by an RF source. Such independent adjustment enables the RF power provided to the first accelerating section to be maintained at a level appropriate for optimal particle capturing therein and for producing a tightly bunched beam of particles having different energy levels from pulse to pulse, while enabling the RF power provided to the second accelerating section to be varied in order to vary the energy levels of the charged particles of the charged particle beam from pulse to pulse.

The invention relates to a method for measuring a particle accelerator beam position. The method for measuring the particle accelerator beam position includes: step S1, sampling N electrode signals of N electrodes of a stripe beam position probe through N channels when the beam passes through the probe; step S2, making up an M*N matrix X for the N electrode signals, and analyzing the principal components of the matrix X; step S3, calculating to obtain beam signal induction amplitudes which are corresponding to the N electrodes one by one, and outputting the N beam signal induction amplitudes through the N channels; step S4, comparing the N beam signal induction amplitudes output from the N channels and calculating to obtain a position signal of the beam. According to the method for measuring the particle accelerator beam position, the electrode signals of the electrode probes are formed into the matrix and are processed simultaneously through a principal component analysis method, and accordingly the noise of each electrode signal is eliminated effectively, and the beam position measuring precision is effectively improved.

A particle accelerator including an electrical field system and a magnetic field system that are configured to direct charged particles along a desired path within an acceleration chamber. The particle accelerator also includes a mechanical device that is located within the acceleration chamber. The mechanical device is configured to be selectively moved to different positions within the acceleration chamber. The particle accelerator also includes an electromechanical (EM) motor having a connector component and piezoelectric elements that are operatively coupled to the connector component. The connector component is operatively attached to the mechanical device. The EM motor drives the connector component when the piezoelectric elements are activated thereby moving the mechanical device.

The system for irradiating patients with charged particles includes a raster scanning irradiation unit with a particle accelerator, a beam guide unit, and a 3D scanning system. It also contains a therapy planning system for generating therapy planning data, which include the energy and number of charged particles per raster point in each layer as derived from the derived dose distribution; a therapy control system, which converts the planning data generated by the therapy planning system into irradiation data and irradiation commands for the particle accelerator, the beam guide unit, and the 3D scanning system. The system further has a plurality of safety devices for ensuring that the therapy planning data have been converted correctly and for verifying the functionality of the system. The plurality of safety devices includes an evaluation unit, which checks the irradiation data and irradiation commands supplied by the therapy control system to the 3D scanning system to verify their therapy-specific plausibility.

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charged-particle beam accelerator having an electromagnet power source without needing simplification and the high reliability of beam emission control, reduction in the number of constituent apparatuses and high stability, and to provide a particle beam radiation therapy system using it.

The invention belongs to the technical field of particle accelerators and particularly relates to manufacture of a radio frequency superconductor cavity. A manufacturing method of the superconductor cavity mainly comprises the following steps: (1) using superconductor materials as raw materials, (2) utilizing CAD software to generate a superconductor cavity model, and adopting layering software to layer the superconductor cavity model, (3) using an atmosphere control system to provide argon for a forming chamber, (4) laying powder of superconductor materials in the step (1) on a forming table of the forming chamber, (5) using a scanning control system to print laser energy onto a powder layer according to the description of a software model of a superconductor cavity slicing layer so as to generate a superconductor material slicing layer entity. The entity is a part of the superconductor cavity. A next slicing layer is processed continually on the first slicing layer entity until the whole superconductor cavity processing process is finished. Finally, mechanical polishing, chemical washing, high-temperature annealing, high-pressure super-pure water washing and super-clean chamber assembly are conducted. The method shortens the development cycle of the superconductor cavity, improves the finished product rate of the development of the superconductor cavity due to the fact that the whole superconductor cavity is free of welding joints, is free of restriction of stamping forming conditions and capable of improving the performance of the superconductor cavity, and reduces product cost due to the fact that surplus superconductor material powder can be used repeatedly.

In a charged particle accelerator, voltage of several tens of kV is applied between accelerating electrodes. In such a case, electric discharge is sometimes generated between the accelerating electrodes. In the charged particle accelerator, part or entirety of the accelerating electrodes is coated with an electric discharge suppressing layer made of ceramics or alloy having a high melting point as compared with metal. When impurity fine particles are accelerated by an electric field and collide with the electrodes, the electric discharge suppressing layer made of ceramics or alloy prevents metal vapor from being easily generated from the electrodes and an ionized plasma from being easily produced, thus suppressing electric discharge between the electrodes.

The invention relates to a power source low-level all-digital amplitude phase control system for a high-energy particle accelerator and an implementation method thereof. The method comprises cooperation of signal preprocessing, digital signal processing and digital loop control. An analog circuit component of the signal preprocessing comprises six signal processing channels and one clock processing channel integrated on an analog part, wherein each signal processing channel comprises an attenuator, an amplifier and a filter; and the clock processing channel comprises an attenuator, an amplifier, a filter, a frequency multiplier and a frequency divider. A digital circuit component of the digital signal processing and the digital loop control comprises three A / D (Analog to Digital) converters for sampling six paths of signals, one D / A (Digital to Analog) converter for generating signals and one FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) for the digital signal processing and the digital loop control, wherein the three A / D converters, the D / A converter and the FPGA are integrated on a digital part. Through adoption of the power source low-level all-digital amplitude phase control system, the physical structural parameters of a super conduction cavity can be controlled, and high stability of the amplitude and phase of a super conduction cavity driving energy field can be kept.