383 results about "Particle accelerator" patented technology

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).

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.