EP0136216B1 - Structure accélératrice linéaire autofocalisante de particules chargées - Google Patents

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EP0136216B1
EP0136216B1 EP84401699A EP84401699A EP0136216B1 EP 0136216 B1 EP0136216 B1 EP 0136216B1 EP 84401699 A EP84401699 A EP 84401699A EP 84401699 A EP84401699 A EP 84401699A EP 0136216 B1 EP0136216 B1 EP 0136216B1
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  • the invention relates to a self-focusing linear accelerating structure of charged particles, intended to equip a linear electron accelerator.
  • Linear accelerators of charged particles are used in many fields such as, scientific, medical, and even industrial. Depending on their application, these accelerators produce beams of particles, of electrons for example, having energies often between one and several tens of MeV.
  • Linear electron accelerating structures are generally formed by a succession of resonant cavities, the dimensions of which are related to the frequency of an electromagnetic wave injected into the structure to accelerate the electrons, and to the speed of the electrons (see for example, US-A-2,770,755 or US-A-4,211,954).
  • the accelerating structures are optimized with regard to the longitudinal dynamics, the lengths of the resonant cavities are chosen, which constitute the accelerating cavities, so as to constantly accelerate the electrons in each of them.
  • This defocusing of the beam is generally compensated for by adding solenoids arranged concentrically around the accelerating structure, to create a corrective magnetic field, which increases the cost and the complexity.
  • the present invention relates to an accelerating structure of self-focusing charged particles, in which the defocusing effect of the beam is avoided by the cancellation of one of its causes, unlike structures according to the prior art where this effect is only compensated.
  • this is obtained by means of a simple and inexpensive arrangement of the single or the first accelerating cavity of this structure, and particularly applicable in the case where, in this cavity, the outlet hole of the beam has a diameter less than the previously mentioned accelerating length; this arrangement is remarkable in that it makes it possible, in the latter case, to take account of the fact that the radial component of the electric field in the accelerating cavity constitutes one of the main causes of the divergence of peripheral charged particles of the beam, and that this radial component is located near the entry and exit faces of the cavity and has effects contrary to the entry and exit of this cavity.
  • a method of using a self-focusing linear accelerating structure of charged particles comprising a first accelerating cavity of a succession of accelerating cavities making it possible to accelerate a beam of charged particles under the effect of a wave.
  • accelerator length we mean a length over which the electrons are accelerated as explained above, this accelerator length being defined by the following relationship:
  • the particles are not subjected to the defocusing action of the radial component located near the face exit, this radial component being either in the process of disappearing, or even becoming focusing; the only minor drawback is a slight deceleration of these particles, before they have passed the exit hole.
  • FIG. 1 partially shows a linear accelerating structure 1 in accordance with the invention, comprising a first accelerating cavity CA followed by n accelerating cavities C 1 , ..., C n , n being in the example described equal to 2.
  • n did not include any so-called coupling cells, which constitute conventional elements arranged between the cavities C 1 , ..., C n in a known manner.
  • the structure 1 has a longitudinal axis Z, coincident with the axis of the first cavity CA, and which also constitutes the axis of a particle beam (not shown) propagating in the direction of the arrow 2; this particle beam is accelerated by the energy of an electromagnetic wave (not shown in FIG. 1) conventionally injected into the structure 1 by a coupling hole 4.
  • the first cavity CA of cylindrical shape, has an inlet face 3 and an outlet face 5 normal to the axis of the beam Z, and spaced from one another by a distance D; the inlet face 3 is provided with an inlet hole 7, the outlet face 5 is provided with an outlet hole 8, these two holes being centered on the axis Z of the beam.
  • the particle beam coming for example, in a known manner, from an electron gun followed by a sliding element (not shown), enters the first accelerating cavity CA by the entry hole 7, and exits from this cavity CA through the outlet hole 8, propagating in the structure 1 in the direction shown by the arrow 2.
  • This relative speed of the electrons is calculated by taking the average between the speed of entry into the first cavity CA, and the maximum speed reached in this cavity at the exit of the accelerating length L ,. It should be noted that certain electrons are decelerated at the very beginning of their trajectory, which is not taken into account in the approximation of the accelerating length L t .
  • these same charged particles having crossed the first accelerating length L 1 do not undergo the influence of this diverging radial component Er 2 , from which they are still separated by an additional length L 2 ; the distance D between the entry and exit faces being formed by the addition of these two lengths L, + L 2 , and the additional length L 2 being equal to or greater than twice the radius r of the outlet hole 8 (L 2 > 2 r).
  • the inlet and outlet holes 7, 8 generally have nozzles, not shown in FIG. 1 which is schematic, and the radius r represents an approximate mean radius of the outlet hole 8.
  • the additional length L 2 is such that the electromagnetic wave is canceled, or even reversed when these particles have crossed the distance D, elves exit the first cavity CA through the outlet hole 8 without diverging; they can even, if the phase of the electromagnetic wave is reversed, undergo a convergent action and a weak deceleration, the radial component then being also reversed. It is noted that this additional length L 2 , of the first cavity CA, also promotes the converging action at the entry of the following accelerating cavity C, which constitutes the second cavity.
  • the distance D 1 between the outlet face 5 of the first cavity CA and the inlet plane 15 of the second cavity C is less than the accelerating length L 1 , and thus ensures convergence sensitive to the input of this second cavity C 1 , taking into account the phase shift of the electromagnetic wave between cavities CA, C 1 , C 2 .
  • the energy gain is such that the effect of the output from the second cavity C is (almost) negligible.
  • L 2 L 1 .K, where K is a coefficient between 0.5 and 1.
  • the distribution of the electric field being symmetrical with respect to the axis Z of the beam, it is not represented in the lower part of the first cavity CA.
  • This distribution of the electric field in the first accelerating cavity CA corresponds to the existence in the latter of an accelerating field.
  • FIG. 2 shows the electromagnetic wave OE of which a half period determines this accelerating field and of which the part of the OE wave comprised on the one hand between an instant to and the instant t1, and on the other hand between an instant t3 and an instant t4 determines a decelerating field; time t2 corresponding to the peak value of the half period where the Zo accelerator field is maximum.
  • this electron undergoes a decelerating field near the input face 3 until time t1 when the OE wave reverses and the field becomes accelerator; the action of the radial component Er 1 , located near the entry face 3, is therefore first divergent then convergent when the field becomes accelerator, and its action is globally convergent.
  • This slowed down electron is joined by electrons that entered the CA cavity after it.
  • the arrangement of the first cavity CA of the structure 1 according to the invention makes it possible to avoid the defocating effect at the output for a wide range of arrival phase values 0 0 , for example between - 45 ° and - 190 ° with respect to Zo or time t1.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the trajectory of a peripheral electron of the beam, and shows the field components Er, Ez seen at different times, taking into account the finite speed of the electron.
  • the exit face 5 would have occupied the position of the line 11 in dotted lines and, the field to which the electron would then have been subjected at its exit from the first cavity CA is represented in dotted lines by the components Er 2 and Ez; the trajectory of the electron would have been modified according to arrow 12 represented in dotted lines, which tends to diverge from the axis Z of the beam.
  • the accelerating structure 1 according to the invention eliminates the defocusing effect of the charged peripheral particles of the beam, at the exit of an accelerating cavity. This elimination of the divergence effect is obtained by a simple, economical arrangement, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency of a linear accelerator of charged particles.

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