Apparatus for colliding nuclear particle beams using ring magnets

Patent · Tue Jul 23 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5722098

Blewett, J P

This patent describes an apparatus for producing a self-colliding charged particle beam. It comprises magnetic focusing means for producing a ring-shaped magnetic field symmetrically spaced about an axis such that the magnetic field in a median plane perpendicular to the axis in the region across the ring-shaped field is unidirectional in a first direction parallel to the axis, and wherein the field is nonuniform with axial components in the first direction and radial components directed toward and away from the axis in the region above the below the plane; and particle beam means including high-velocity, charged particles having orbits that intersect the plane, the axis and the ring-shaped magnetic field, sand wherein the charged particles travel radially away from the axis in substantially straight lines, interact with the axial components to curve as they traverse the field, and then travel radially toward the axis in substantially straight lines.

• Assignee: A E Lab., Inc., Princeton Junction, NJ (USA)
• Patent Number(s): US 5034183; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-355930
• OSTI ID: 5722098
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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