EP0193038A2 - Générateur de champ magnétique pour système d'accélération de particules - Google Patents

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EP0193038A2
EP0193038A2 EP86101853A EP86101853A EP0193038A2 EP 0193038 A2 EP0193038 A2 EP 0193038A2 EP 86101853 A EP86101853 A EP 86101853A EP 86101853 A EP86101853 A EP 86101853A EP 0193038 A2 EP0193038 A2 EP 0193038A2
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    • H01FMAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F7/00Magnets
    • H01F7/06Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets
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    • G21K1/08Deviation, concentration or focusing of the beam by electric or magnetic means
    • G21K1/093Deviation, concentration or focusing of the beam by electric or magnetic means by magnetic means
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    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05HPLASMA TECHNIQUE; PRODUCTION OF ACCELERATED ELECTRICALLY-CHARGED PARTICLES OR OF NEUTRONS; PRODUCTION OR ACCELERATION OF NEUTRAL MOLECULAR OR ATOMIC BEAMS
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    • H05H7/04Magnet systems, e.g. undulators, wigglers; Energisation thereof

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  • the invention relates to a magnetic field device for a particle accelerator system, the particle path of which has at least curved sections, with a plurality of magnetic field-generating windings, at least one additional winding being provided for focusing the electrically charged particles.
  • a magnetic field device for a particle accelerator system the particle path of which has at least curved sections, with a plurality of magnetic field-generating windings, at least one additional winding being provided for focusing the electrically charged particles.
  • microtrons can achieve particle energies of up to approximately 100 MeV. These systems can in particular also be implemented as so-called “race track” microtrons.
  • the particle trajectories of this type of accelerator systems are composed of two semicircles, each with a corresponding 180 ° deflection magnet, and of two straight track sections (cf. "Nucl.Instr. And Meth.”, Vol. 177, 1980, pages 411 to 416 or Vol. 204, 1982, pages 1 to 20).
  • the magnetic field can be increased with unchanged dimensions.
  • Such magnetic fields can be generated in particular with superconducting magnets.
  • a field accuracy AB / B o of about 10- ' would be required; which means that the field at the beginning of the acceleration phase should be adjustable to about 0.002 mT.
  • external fields such as the earth's field with 0.06 mT or the fields of magnetizable, ie para-, ferri- or. be ferromagnetic parts of a magnetic device. Eddy currents in metallic parts of the magnet itself or in its conductors can also lead to corresponding disturbances.
  • shielding currents in the conductors of a superconducting winding or so-called frozen magnetic fluxes in these conductors may represent such sources of interference.
  • the electron accelerator system to be removed therefore has the 180 ° deflection magnets with a main winding generating a dipole field and an additional winding which focuses the particles onto the particle path.
  • a focusing solenoid system is provided in the area of the straight track sections.
  • the deflecting magnets enclose the corresponding curved section of the particle path, so that the synchrotron radiation occurring there cannot be used.
  • the object of the present invention is to design the magnetic field device of an accelerator system mentioned at the outset in such a way that it can be used to accelerate relatively large currents of charged particles to relatively high energy levels, in the case of electrons to, for example, several hundred MeV, without the need for special pre-accelerators will.
  • the additional winding in the area of at least one of the curved sections of the particle path generates an azimuthal guide field for the particles during their acceleration phase, in that this winding is designed as a correspondingly curved electrical conductor arrangement which partially surrounds the particle path, which is designed like a hollow gutter, is open to the outside, is appropriately structured to suppress eddy currents and is traversed by a current transverse to the particle path.
  • superconducting deflection magnets for fields between approximately 2 mT and 100 mT can advantageously also be used for the acceleration of electrons in particular, by generating an azimuthal component of the field carrying the particles. Because of the hollow channel-like design of the conductor arrangement used for this purpose, the emission of synchrotron radiation is not obstructed laterally to the outside. With the structuring of this conductor arrangement which is also to be carried out in a known manner, eddy currents fanned in by the magnetic windings are also effectively suppressed.
  • FIG. 1 schematically indicates a magnetic field device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 shows such a magnetic field device as part of an electron accelerator system. The same parts are provided with the same reference numerals in the figures.
  • FIG. 1 shows the conductor arrangement of a magnetic field device according to the invention.
  • This device should be provided in particular for electronically known accelerator systems of the race track type ("race track microtrons").
  • the dipole deflection magnets required for this are bent in a semicircular shape in accordance with the curved particle path (see, for example, "IEEE Trans. NucLSci.”, Vol. NS-30, No. 4, August 1983, pages 2531 to 2533).
  • the particles end energies are desired by some 1 00 MeV, the windings of the magnets with a superconducting material are then created because of the required high fields preferred.
  • a circumferential azimuthal component of the magnetic field is to be ensured with an undisturbed outlet of the synchrotron radiation. Due to such a component, additional focusing of the electron beam can advantageously be achieved during the still low-energy acceleration phase even when using superconducting deflection magnets. Then electrons with a relatively low injection energy of e.g. several 100 keV and with a relatively high particle density, i.e. a pulse current of, for example, at least 20 mA with pulse lengths in the usec range are shot directly into the particle path; i.e., pre-accelerators for injecting electrons with higher energy can then advantageously be dispensed with.
  • the superconducting deflection magnets can therefore also be used for fields between approximately 2 mT and 100 mT during electron acceleration.
  • the magnetic field He in the area of a deflection magnet and the magnetic field component H 'in the straight areas of the particle path are shown in more detail in FIG. 9 is the opening angle of the particle path of the electrons e indicated in the figure by a dotted line and designated by 2.
  • This conductor arrangement is therefore provided along the entire orbit of the electrons e - .
  • 2 is the magnetic field component H 'in the straight track sections A, and A, respectively produced by two solenoid coils 3 or 4 which is a electron e - surrounded receiving, not further executed in the figure electron beam chamber.
  • Such solenoids are used, for example, in high-current betatrons for beam focusing (cf. "IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.”, Vol. NS-30, No. 4, August 1983, pages 3162 to 3164).
  • a correspondingly curved electrical conductor arrangement 6 which partially surrounds the semicircular electron path, is provided.
  • This conductor arrangement is designed in the manner of a hollow gutter, ie it is open to the outside in order to allow the synchrotron radiation illustrated by the arrowed lines 7 to penetrate to the outside without being disturbed.
  • the conductor arrangement should be structured such that eddy currents generated in it by the windings of the respective deflecting magnet are effectively suppressed.
  • the conductor arrangement is therefore composed of a large number of individual elements 8a to 8i which are lined up in the beam guidance direction.
  • Each of these nine elements for example, is seen to be approximately U-shaped in a section transverse to the beam guidance direction in that it has an approximately rectangular or circular sector-shaped upper part 9 and a corresponding lower part 10, which are connected to one another via a side part 11.
  • the parts 9 and 1 0 lie in parallel planes above or below the particle path 2, while the side parts 1 1 arranged on the inside of the particle.
  • all elements 8a to 8i are electrically connected to one another and are flowed through by a current with the current flow direction indicated by arrows in the figure transverse to the particle path and in the circumferential direction around the particle stream.
  • the conductor arrangement 6 thus essentially represents a slotted solenoid with at least one turn, which is to be arranged in each case within a 180 ° deflection magnet.
  • Both normal and superconducting conductor material can be selected for the conductor arrangement 6.
  • this can also have a hollow channel-like or tubular conductor arrangement, which is slotted on the outside in the direction of the particle guide, deviating from the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, can have a correspondingly different shape.
  • the conductor arrangement circular or oval cross-sectional shapes are also suitable.
  • a hollow gutter-like structure made of an electrically non-conductive material is also conceivable, which serves as a carrier body for the individual conductor tracks of the conductor arrangement. If necessary, this carrier body can even be the beam guiding chamber itself.
  • the side parts 11 of the elements 8a to 8i also do not need to run directly in the vicinity of the particle track 2. Rather, these parts 11 can also lie near the center M of the respective 180 ° deflection magnet, in which case the upper and lower parts 9 and 10 are to be arranged at a correspondingly greater distance with respect to the particle path 2.
  • the elements 8a to 8i are electrically connected in parallel directly with one another only via two current supply conductors 20 and 21. These power supply conductors are arranged so that they do not hinder the exit of the synchrotron radiation 7. If necessary, however, the elements 8a to 8i can also form several subgroups, each of which leads to its own power supply. The conductor arrangement 6 would then represent a solenoid with a corresponding number of turns.
  • a Be component of approximately 20 mT is additionally switched on for beam guidance after the injection of electrons, for example with an injection energy of 100 keV.
  • an electrical flooding of about 25 kA through the U-shaped conductor elements 8a to 8i is required.
  • the just designed solenoid coils 3 and 4 can be designed with many turns and are then operated with a correspondingly smaller current.
  • FIG. 2 an oblique view of a curved 180 ° dipole magnet of an electron accelerator system is shown schematically in a partially broken illustration.
  • This magnet has two large curved dipole windings 13 and 14, which are arranged lying on both sides of an electron beam chamber 17 surrounding the particle path 2 in parallel planes.
  • an additional gradient winding 16 Along the curved inside of the magnet or the electron beam chamber 17 there is an additional gradient winding 16. Since the conductors of these windings 13, 14 and 16 are made of superconducting material, these windings are located in a housing 18 which has the required for cooling the superconductors absorbs cryogenic coolant.
  • the electron beam chamber to which the beam guide tube 5 is flanged in the transition region between straight and curved sections of the particle path, is formed between the windings as a U-shaped beam chamber 17 which is open to the outside, in order to enable the synchrotron radiation to be led out.
  • the chamber 1 7 is connected to the housing 18, and both parts thus providing a closed container for the coolant.
  • the electron beam chamber 17 from the inside, hollow channel-like of the formed of individual elements 8
  • Conductor arrangement 6 enclosed, that is, the chamber serves as a carrier body for the elements 8.
  • the azimuthal guide field to be generated with the configuration of the magnetic field device according to the invention is essentially effective in the case of small fields and high field change speeds.
  • such a guiding field is largely superfluous, since the main windings of the magnetic field generating device can then take over the particle guidance alone in a known manner.

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