Neutron accelerator tube having improved target section

Patent · Tue Jan 19 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5481146

Givens, W W

A neutron accelerator tube is described having a replenisher section for supplying accelerator gas, in ionization section adjacent the replenisher section adapted to receive the accelerator gas, and a target section adjacent the ionization section. The target section includes a chamber having a tritium target therein. A cathode member is interposed between the ionization section and the target chamber and has a recessed convergent surface exposed to the target chamber. An aperture in the cathode member at the vortex of this recessed surface provides for the extraction of ionized accelerator gas from the ionization section into the target chamber. An extraction electrode is also located in the target chamber between the target and the cathode and has a divergent projecting surface facing the recessed cathode surface. This electrode has an aperture at the apex of the projecting surface through which ionized accelerator gas may may be directed at the target.

• Assignee: Mobil Corp
• Patent Number(s): US 4311912
• OSTI ID: 5481146
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
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ACCELERATOR FACILITIES
ACCELERATORS
BARYONS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
DESIGN
ELECTRODES
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
FLUIDS
GASES
HADRONS
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
IONIZATION CHAMBERS
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
NEUTRON SOURCES
NEUTRONS
NUCLEI
NUCLEONS
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
PARTICLE SOURCES
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIATION SOURCES
RADIOISOTOPES
TARGET CHAMBERS
TRITIUM
TUBES
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES