Method of correcting eddy current magnetic fields in particle accelerator vacuum chambers

Patent · Tue Apr 02 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:1176631

Danby, Gordon T.; Jackson, John W.

A method for correcting magnetic field aberrations produced by eddy currents induced in a particle accelerator vacuum chamber housing is provided wherein correction windings are attached to selected positions on the housing and the windings are energized by transformer action from secondary coils, which coils are inductively coupled to the poles of electro-magnets that are powered to confine the charged particle beam within a desired orbit as the charged particles are accelerated through the vacuum chamber by a particle-driving rf field. The power inductively coupled to the secondary coils varies as a function of variations in the power supplied by the particle-accelerating rf field to a beam of particles accelerated through the vacuum chamber, so the current in the energized correction coils is effective to cancel eddy current flux fields that would otherwise be induced in the vacuum chamber by power variations in the particle beam.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): H000909
• Application Number: 07/505289
• OSTI ID: 1176631
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 1990 Mar 19
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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