Particle acceleration in a variable-energy synchrocyclotron by a single-tuned variable-frequency drive

Patent · 17 July 2018

OSTI ID:1463705

Radovinsky, Alexey

Ions are released over time from an ion source into a beam area proximate a central axis. A radiofrequency (RF) system with a variable frequency and variable voltage accelerates the ions in orbiting trajectories expanding outward from the central axis. The ions are accelerated to different extraction energy levels within a given design range at a shared extraction radius from the central axis. An RF-frequency versus ion-time-of-flight scenario is set such that the frequency versus time scenario is the same for any ion extraction energy from the given design range, and a constant-or-variable-RF-voltage versus ion-time-of-flight scenario is adjusted to provide ion acceleration from injection to extraction for ions with different respective extraction energy levels within the given design range; and the ions are extracted at the different energy levels at the shared extraction radius.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: SC0013499
• Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• Patent Number(s): 10,028,369
• Application Number: 15/552,719
• OSTI ID: 1463705
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English