JP2009301992A - Superconducting coil device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To resolve an error magnetic field so as to reliably prevent diffusion of a charged particle beam flowing in a beam line of a charged particle accelerator. <P>SOLUTION: In a superconducting coil device 10 for using a superconductive electromagnet with two or more electrodes fitted at the beam line of the charged particle accelerator, a correcting magnetic field coil 13 capable of forming a magnetic field for canceling the error magnetic field generated by an electromagnet containing a main magnetic field coil 12 is arranged independent from an outer ambient of the coil 12. The correcting magnetic field coil 13 corresponds to the error magnetic field generated by the electromagnet containing the main magnetic field coil 12 to set at least either the number of poles of the coil, the shape, the number of turns or the setting position. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a superconducting coil device used for a superconducting electromagnet installed in a beam line of a charged particle accelerator.

  As shown in FIG. 13, the charged particle accelerator guides charged particles such as protons and electrons emitted from an ion source or an electron gun to a vacuum duct 1 having a circular shape in a plan view as a beam line. The high-frequency accelerating cavity 2, the bipolar electromagnet 3, and the quadrupole electromagnet 4 that are appropriately arranged on the outside are used to accelerate while circulating the charged particles. The high frequency acceleration cavity 2 accelerates charged particles flowing in the vacuum duct 1, the bipolar electromagnet 3 deflects the trajectory of the charged particles flowing in the vacuum duct 1, and the quadrupole electromagnet 4 charges charged in the vacuum duct 1. The particles are focused on the central region of the vacuum duct 1 to prevent the charged particle beam from diverging. When the beam of charged particles flowing in the vacuum duct 1 is deflected by the bipolar electromagnet 3, it generates radiant light.

  Patent Documents 1 and 2 describe the above-described bipolar electromagnet 3 and quadrupole electromagnet 4 that are composed of superconducting electromagnets.

  In order to facilitate manufacture, a 360-degree helical rotating dipole magnetic field generating electromagnet is configured by connecting a plurality of dipole magnetic field generating magnets having a helical rotation angle of 180 degrees or less in series in the longitudinal direction. Is proposed in Patent Document 3. In this electromagnet, a correction coil for end magnetic field correction is arranged between adjacent electromagnets.

  In the charged particle accelerator, radiation light is generally generated in the beam deflection portion as described above. In order to generate radiation light in the linear portion of the beam, a dedicated electromagnet such as a wiggler electromagnet or a helical electromagnet is used. There is an accelerator placed in the beam line. By emitting the emitted light in this way, the emittance of the charged particle beam can be reduced.

As shown in FIG. 14, the wiggler electromagnet deflects the beam trajectory by arranging a plurality of bipolar electromagnets 6 along the beam flow direction 5 of the charged particles. The emitted light P is generated in the direction.
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  By the way, in a multipole electromagnet such as a quadrupole electromagnet 4 that is used in a charged particle accelerator and converges a beam of charged particles, the center of the vacuum duct 1 must be installed unless the center of the magnetic field coincides with the center of the vacuum duct 1. An error magnetic field is generated in the region, and the beam of charged particles flowing in the central region of the vacuum duct 1 may diverge. In order to prevent the generation of an error magnetic field caused by such an installation error of the electromagnet, the electromagnet is carefully aligned over a long time.

  Further, due to individual differences of the electromagnets themselves, an error magnetic field similar to that described above may be generated, and the charged particle beam may diverge. For this reason, in order to ensure high magnetic field accuracy, the electromagnet must be designed and manufactured with high accuracy.

  Further, the correction coil described in Patent Document 3 only removes the end magnetic field that can be predicted at the design stage, and does not eliminate the error magnetic field generated in the entire electromagnet.

  Further, in the charged particle accelerator, when a dedicated electromagnet (such as a wiggler electromagnet) for generating radiation light is arranged in the linear portion of the beam, the beam line of the accelerator is lengthened accordingly.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a superconducting coil device that can eliminate the error magnetic field and reliably prevent the divergence of the charged particle beam flowing through the beam line of the charged particle accelerator. There is to do.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide a superconducting coil device capable of generating radiation light from a linear portion of a beam line without lengthening the beam line of the charged particle accelerator.

  The present invention relates to a superconducting coil device used for a superconducting electromagnet having two or more poles installed in a beam line of a charged particle accelerator, and an error magnetic field generated by an electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil independently of the main magnetic field coil. The correction magnetic field coil which can form the magnetic field for canceling out is arranged.

  Further, the present invention provides a superconducting coil device used for a superconducting electromagnet having two or more poles installed in a beam line of a charged particle accelerator, and generates radiant light from a charged particle beam independently around a main magnetic field coil. For this purpose, a magnetic field coil for generating radiant light capable of forming a magnetic field is provided.

  According to the present invention, an error magnetic field caused by an installation error of an electromagnet including a main magnetic field coil, or an error magnetic field generated due to an individual difference of the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil is eliminated. Divergence of the charged particle beam can be reliably prevented by the superconducting electromagnet using the superconducting coil device.

  In addition, according to the present invention, it is not necessary to install a dedicated electromagnet for generating radiant light from a charged particle beam in the linear part of the beam line of the charged particle accelerator, so that the beam line of the charged particle accelerator is lengthened. Without this, radiation light can be generated from the straight line portion of the beam line.

  The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments.

[A] First embodiment (FIGS. 1 to 9)
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a first embodiment of a superconducting coil device according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line II-II in FIG. FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the main magnetic field coil of FIG.

  This superconducting coil device 10 is used for a multipolar superconducting magnet having two or more poles installed in the beam line of a charged particle accelerator (see FIG. 13), which is a four-pole superconducting magnet in this embodiment. This quadrupole superconducting electromagnet has a function of converging a beam of charged particles in the region of the center O of the vacuum duct 11 as the beam line through which a beam of charged particles such as protons and electrons flows, thereby preventing beam divergence. Have

  The superconducting coil device 10 of this embodiment includes a main magnetic field coil 12 and a correction magnetic field coil 13. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the main magnetic field coil 12 has four saddle coils 14 in which a conductor is wound in an oval spiral around the outside of the vacuum duct 11. The magnetic poles N and S generated in the adjacent saddle coils 14 are different from each other. The arrows in FIG. 2 indicate the direction of the magnetic field B generated by the main magnetic field coil 12. The magnetic field B becomes 0 (zero) at the center O of the vacuum duct 11 and increases as the distance from the center O increases. Accordingly, the magnetic field B makes it possible to focus the charged particle beam flowing in the vacuum duct 11 in the region of the center O of the vacuum duct 11.

  The correction magnetic field coil 13 is arranged so as to be wound around the outer periphery of the main magnetic field coil 12 and is provided independently of the main magnetic field coil 12, and cancels the error magnetic field generated by the main magnetic field coil 12. A magnetic field can be formed. This error magnetic field is caused by an installation error of the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 or an individual difference of the electromagnet itself including the main magnetic field coil 12. For example, an error magnetic field generated by installation of an electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 such as rotation or misalignment, a deviation of the effective length of the magnetic field of the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12, a twist of the magnetic field, generation of a higher-order component magnetic field, etc. There is an error magnetic field generated due to individual differences of the electromagnet itself including the main magnetic field coil 12.

  The correction magnetic field coil 13 includes a plurality of saddle coils 15 similar to the saddle coil 14 of the main magnetic field coil 12, but corresponds to the type of error magnetic field generated in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 as described above. At least one of the number and shape of the poles, the number of turns, and the installation position is set.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 5 (A), when an error magnetic field is generated as a result of the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 being rotated by an angle α from the normal position, the error magnetic field is generated. As shown in FIG. 4, a correction magnetic field coil 13 is arranged around the outer side of the main magnetic field coil 12 in order to eliminate the above and obtain the normal magnetic field distribution shown in FIG. The correction magnetic field coil 13 has the same number of poles as the main magnetic field coil 12, and each saddle coil 15 is arranged at a position rotated by an angle with respect to the main magnetic field coil 12. The error magnetic field generated by the rotation of the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 is canceled and eliminated by the magnetic field generated by the correction magnetic field coil 13.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 7A, when an error magnetic field is generated because the axial center Q of the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 is displaced from the center O of the vacuum duct 11 by a distance t. In order to eliminate this error magnetic field and obtain the normal magnetic field distribution shown in FIG. 7B, a correction magnetic field coil 13 is arranged around the outside of the main magnetic field coil 12 as shown in FIG. The correction magnetic field coil 13 includes, for example, a two-pole saddle coil 15 that is disposed on a straight line A that connects the axial center Q of the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 and the center O of the vacuum duct 11. A magnetic field E directed from the axis Q toward the center O is applied to the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 by the saddle coil 15. As a result, the error magnetic field caused by the axis deviation generated in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 is canceled and eliminated.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 8B, when an error magnetic field is generated due to the occurrence of a length shift ΔL in the effective magnetic field length L of the electromagnet itself including the main magnetic field coil 12, the error magnetic field is eliminated. For this purpose, as shown in FIG. 8A, a correction magnetic field coil 13 is arranged around the outside of the main magnetic field coil 12. The correction magnetic field coil 13 has the same number of poles as the main magnetic field coil 12, and each saddle coil 15 is disposed immediately above each saddle coil 14 of the main magnetic field coil 12. The number of turns is adjusted. The magnetic field generated by the correction magnetic field coil 13 cancels out the error magnetic field caused by the length difference ΔL of the effective magnetic field length L generated in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12.

  Further, the saddle type coil 14 of the main magnetic field coil 12 is twisted with respect to the longitudinal direction of the vacuum duct 11 and helically arranged. As a result, an error magnetic field is generated in the electromagnet itself including the main magnetic field coil 12. A correction magnetic field coil 13 for eliminating the error magnetic field is arranged around the outside of the main magnetic field coil 12. Although not shown, the correction magnetic field coil 13 has, for example, the same number of poles as the main magnetic field coil 12, and each saddle coil 15 has the same degree in the opposite direction to the twist of each saddle coil 14 of the main magnetic field coil 12. They are twisted. The magnetic field generated by the correction magnetic field coil 13 cancels out the error magnetic field caused by the twist of the magnetic field generated in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12.

  Moreover, each saddle type coil 14 of the main magnetic field coil 12 shown in FIG. 9 (A) becomes asymmetrical, for example, because the dimensions thereof are different from each other, and the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 is changed to FIG. When an 8-pole higher-order component magnetic field shown in FIG. 9 or a 6-pole higher-order component magnetic field shown in FIG. 9C is generated, resulting in an error magnetic field, in order to eliminate this error magnetic field, A correction magnetic field coil 13 is disposed around the magnetic field coil 12.

  In this case, the saddle coils 15 of the correction magnetic field coil 13 are arranged at the arrangement positions of the coils for generating higher-order component magnetic fields as shown in FIGS. By generating a magnetic field opposite to the higher-order component magnetic field, only the higher-order component magnetic field is canceled. Such a correction magnetic field coil 13 can eliminate an error magnetic field due to a higher-order component magnetic field.

  The correction magnetic field coil 13 measures the magnetic field generated in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 with high accuracy and corrects the error magnetic field so as to cancel the error magnetic field when an error magnetic field is generated from the measurement result. The number of poles, shape, number of turns, installation position, etc. of 13 are determined and designed. At this time, the value of the current flowing through the correction magnetic field coil 13 is designed to be the same as that of the main magnetic field coil 12. Accordingly, the correction magnetic field coil 13 can be electrically connected in series with the main magnetic field coil 12 so that power is supplied from a power source common to the main magnetic field coil 12.

  Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the following effects (1) to (3) are obtained.

  (1) A correction magnetic field coil 13 capable of forming a magnetic field for canceling out an error magnetic field generated by an electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 is disposed independently around the outside of the main magnetic field coil 12. Thus, an error magnetic field caused by an installation error of the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12 or an error magnetic field caused by individual differences of the electromagnet itself including the main magnetic field coil 12 can be eliminated. As a result, the charged particle beam flowing in the vacuum duct 11 which is the beam line of the charged particle accelerator can be converged on the central O region of the vacuum duct 11 by the superconducting electromagnet provided with the superconducting coil device 10. Beam divergence can be reliably prevented.

  (2) Since the correction magnetic field coil 13 is designed to cancel the generated error magnetic field from the measurement result of the magnetic field generated in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil 12, it is possible to reliably eliminate the generated error magnetic field. it can.

  (3) Since the correction magnetic field coil 13 is electrically connected in series with the main magnetic field coil 12 and is supplied with power from a common power source with the main magnetic field coil 12, the correction magnetic field coil 13 and the main magnetic field coil 12 In this case, it is not necessary to install individual power sources independently. As a result, the superconducting electromagnet including the superconducting coil device 10 can be made compact and the cost can be reduced.

[B] Second Embodiment (FIGS. 10 to 12)
FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view showing a second embodiment of the superconducting coil device according to the present invention. 11A is a perspective view schematically showing a bipolar alternating magnetic field coil as the radiation light generating magnetic field coil of FIG. 10, and FIG. 11B is a perspective view of the bipolar alternating magnetic field coil of FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the magnetic field to generate | occur | produce. In the present embodiment, the same parts as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description will be simplified or omitted.

  The superconducting coil device according to the present embodiment is used for a multipolar superconducting magnet having two or more poles installed in the beam line of a charged particle accelerator (see FIG. 13), and in this embodiment, a four-pole superconducting magnet. And a main magnetic field coil 12 and a radiation light generating magnetic field coil 21 disposed so as to overlap the outer periphery of the main magnetic field coil 12.

  As in the first embodiment, the main magnetic field coil 12 converges the beam of charged particles to the center O region of the vacuum duct 11 and prevents its divergence. The radiant light generating magnetic field coil 21 is a dipole alternating magnetic field coil 22 that forms a magnetic field for generating radiant light from a beam of charged particles that is converged by the main magnetic field coil 12 and flows in the vacuum duct 11, or a helical dipole. Coil 23. These bipolar alternating magnetic field coil 22 and helical dipole coil 23 are arranged independently of the main magnetic field coil 12.

  Here, the generation of synchrotron radiation from a charged particle beam is not limited to the case where the charged particle itself is used for research such as physical properties and molecular biology, and the emittance of the charged particle beam is reduced by reducing the emittance of the charged particle beam. This is to increase the density and to improve the beam collision frequency particularly in the beam collision type accelerator. The emittance is a physical quantity representing the effective size of the beam, and refers to the area occupied by the entire beam in the momentum phase space.

  In FIGS. 11A and 11B, the bipolar alternating magnetic field coil 22 uses a single or a plurality of conductors 24 to alternately generate a magnetic field along the flow direction C of the charged particle beam in the vacuum duct 11. A dipole alternating magnetic field (that is, a wiggler magnetic field) in which the direction B changes is formed. While the charged particle beam flows in the dipole alternating magnetic field, its trajectory is deflected and emits radiation P (see FIG. 14) in the same direction as the beam flow direction C.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 12A, the helical dipole coil 23 is a coil in which a dipole coil is helically twisted along the flow direction C of charged particles. Therefore, the direction B of the magnetic field generated in the vacuum duct 11 by the helical dipole coil 23 also moves spirally along the beam flow direction C as shown in FIG. For this reason, the beam of charged particles flowing in the vacuum duct 11 is deflected while being twisted in a spiral, so that radiated light is generated. The power supply for the bipolar alternating magnetic field coil 22 and the helical dipole coil 23 may be the same as that of the main magnetic field coil 12 or may be a separate power supply.

  Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the following effect (4) is obtained.

  (4) A synchrotron radiation generating magnetic field coil capable of forming a magnetic field for generating synchrotron radiation from the charged particle beam around the outside of the main magnetic field coil 12 that converges the charged particle beam to prevent beam divergence ( A dipole alternating magnetic field coil 22 and a helical dipole coil 23 are disposed. For this reason, it is not necessary to install a dedicated electromagnet (such as a wiggler electromagnet or a helical electromagnet) for generating synchrotron radiation from the charged particle beam in the linear portion of the beam line of the charged particle accelerator. As a result, it is possible to generate radiated light from the linear portion of the beam line without lengthening the beam line of the charged particle accelerator, and to reduce the emittance of the beam.

The perspective view which shows 1st Embodiment of the superconducting coil apparatus which concerns on this invention. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line II-II in FIG. 1. The perspective view which shows the main magnetic field coil of FIG. The schematic cross-sectional view which shows the superconducting coil apparatus in case the correction magnetic field coil of FIG. 1 is an object for error magnetic field correction by rotation. (A) is a magnetic field distribution diagram showing the strength of the magnetic field on the x-axis and y-axis when an error magnetic field is generated by rotation in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil in FIG. 4, and (B) is a magnetic field distribution diagram in FIG. The magnetic field distribution figure which shows the change of the strength of a magnetic field when the error magnetic field by rotation of A) is eliminated on an x-axis and a y-axis. The schematic cross-sectional view which shows the superconducting coil apparatus in case the correction | amendment magnetic field coil of FIG. 4A is a magnetic field distribution diagram showing the strength of a magnetic field on the x-axis and the y-axis when an error magnetic field is generated due to an axis shift in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil of FIG. 4, and FIG. The magnetic field distribution figure which shows the change of the strength of a magnetic field when the error magnetic field by the axis shift of (A) is eliminated on an x-axis and a y-axis. (A) is a schematic longitudinal sectional view showing a superconducting coil device when the correction magnetic field coil of FIG. 1 is for correcting an error magnetic field due to a deviation in the effective magnetic field length, and (B) is a main cross-sectional view of FIG. 8 (A). The magnetic field distribution figure which shows the strength of a magnetic field when the length shift of the magnetic field effective length arises in the electromagnet containing a magnetic field coil in the plane along the axis | shaft of a superconducting coil apparatus. (A) is a schematic longitudinal sectional view showing the main magnetic field coil of FIG. 1, and (B) is a case where an error magnetic field due to an 8-pole higher-order component magnetic field is generated in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil of FIG. FIG. 10C is an explanatory diagram in the case where an error magnetic field due to a high-order component magnetic field having six poles is generated in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil of FIG. 9A. The cross-sectional view which shows 2nd Embodiment of the superconducting coil apparatus which concerns on this invention. 10A is a perspective view schematically showing a dipole alternating magnetic field coil as the synchrotron radiation generating magnetic field coil of FIG. 10, and FIG. 11B is a description showing a magnetic field generated by the dipole alternating magnetic field coil of FIG. Figure. (A) is a perspective view which shows schematically the helical dipole coil as a magnetic field coil for radiation light generation of FIG. 10, (B) is explanatory drawing which shows the magnetic field generated by the helical dipole coil of FIG. 12 (A). The top view which shows a part of general charged particle accelerator roughly. Explanatory drawing which shows the emitted light generation condition by a normal wiggler electromagnet.

Explanation of symbols

10 Superconducting coil device 11 Vacuum duct (beam line)
12 Main magnetic field coil 13 Correction magnetic field coil 20 Superconducting coil device 21 Radiation light generating magnetic field coil 22 Dipole alternating magnetic field coil 23 Helical dipole coil

Claims (7)

In a superconducting coil device used for a superconducting magnet having two or more poles installed in a beam line of a charged particle accelerator,
A superconducting coil device, wherein a correction magnetic field coil capable of forming a magnetic field for canceling out an error magnetic field generated by an electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil is arranged around the main magnetic field coil independently. 2. The correction magnetic field coil according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the number of poles, the shape, the number of turns, and the installation position of the coil is set corresponding to an error magnetic field generated by an electromagnet including a main magnetic field coil. The superconducting coil device described. The superconducting coil device according to claim 1, wherein the correction magnetic field coil is designed to cancel the generated error magnetic field from the measurement result of the magnetic field generated in the electromagnet including the main magnetic field coil. The superconducting coil device according to claim 1, wherein the correction magnetic field coil is electrically connected in series with the main magnetic field coil, and electric power is supplied from a power source common to the main magnetic field coil. In a superconducting coil device used for a superconducting magnet having two or more poles installed in a beam line of a charged particle accelerator,
A superconducting coil device, characterized in that a radiant light generating magnetic field coil capable of forming a magnetic field for generating radiant light from a beam of charged particles is arranged around a main magnetic field coil. 6. The superconducting coil device according to claim 5, wherein the radiation light generating magnetic field coil is a bipolar alternating magnetic field coil that forms a wiggler magnetic field. 6. The superconducting coil device according to claim 5, wherein the radiation light generating magnetic field coil is a helical dipole coil.

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