Abstract:
A device for collimation or focusing of a relativistic electron packet, obtained in particular by laser-plasma acceleration, including a gas cloud and a laser capable of emitting a laser pulse focused in the gas cloud in order to create therein a wave of focusing electric and magnetic fields. The invention also relates to a device for emission of a collimated or focused relativistic electron packet. The invention further relates to a collimation or focusing method for a relativistic electron packet, and to methods for emission of a collimated or focused relativistic electron packet.
Abstract:
This discloses a device called a particle refrigerator that will reduce the emittance of a charged particle beam. The particle refrigerator device is particularly well-suited for beams of particles created by interactions or decays of other particles, such as anti-protons, pions, ions, and muons, which are inherently created with very large emittances. It is a compact and inexpensive device compared to other systems for the emittance reduction of such beams. This device works by injecting beam particles backwards into the device, using the particle turn-around to match an incoming beam into a frictional cooling channel; this increases the acceptance of that channel by perhaps a thousandfold, making it practical to produce beams of high intensity and brightness. The frictional cooling is very effective, and simulations of its operation and performance give emittance reduction factors exceeding 30,000, with transmissions as high as 70%.
Abstract:
Beam processing methods including e-beam welding and e-beam evaporation for thin film deposition are implemented with a novel high power, long focus electron source. The high power, long focus electron source generates an e-beam. The e-beam is transported through a series of steering magnets to steer the beam. At least one refocusing magnet is provided to refocus the e-beam. A final steering magnet bends the e-beam to focus on a target, such as a weld joint or a deposition target.
Abstract:
A drift tube linac incorporates rf-electric quadrupole focusing by employing drift tubes with only one drift-tube stem per particle wavelength and in which the lowest frequency RF cavity mode has a transverse magnetic field (TM.sub.010 -mode). Each drift tube comprises two separate electrodes that form a capacitor that couples to the axial electric field of the primary cavity mode. The electrodes operate at different electrical potentials, as determined by the RF fields in the cavity, and are supported by a single stem along the axis of a cylindrical cavity. Each electrode supports two fingers pointing towards the opposite end of the drift tube, forming a four fingered geometry that produces an RF quadrupole field distribution along its axis. The fundamental periodicity of the structure is equal to the particle wavelength (.beta..lambda.) where .beta. is the particle velocity in units of the velocity of light and .lambda. is the free space wavelength of the rf. The particles traverse two distinct regions, namely the gaps between drift tubes, where the acceleration takes place, and the regions inside the drift tubes, where the RF focusing takes place. The linac of the present invention transforms the reverse fields into transverse fields for focusing such that the beam is not decelerated.
Abstract:
A device for guiding an electron beam from an electron gun to a microwave resonator in a microwave source operating according to the gyrotron principle, including a beam duct for guiding the electron beam, wherein the beam duct encloses the electron beam and has an electrically highly conductive surface area. For damping unwanted wave modes inside the beam duct, a plurality of damping openings are provided in the surface area of the beam duct. The characteristic aperture size (a) of the damping openings is larger than the wavelength of the modes to be damped. A particularly simple implementation employs wire mesh with an appropriate mesh size used as the material for the surface area of the beam duct.
Abstract:
A permanent-magnet-focused linear-beam high power millimeter-wave tube is externally adjustable for optimum electron beam optics during initial tube operation. The adjustment is made possible by providing an enlarged cavity within the cathode polepiece within which is housed a confined-flow magnetically-focused electron gun, and a cylindrical insert of magnetic material axially symmetrically disposed about the gun and in spaced relationship to and adjacent the gun insulator envelope. The insert may comprise iron or a radially magnetized permanent magnet, either alone or in combination, and more than one insert of magnetic material may be concentrically employed. In this manner, and by movement of the insert axially within the cavity toward and away from the gun, a finely controllable smooth adjustment of the beam diameter in the beam-microwave interaction region of the tube is effected over a wide range during initial operation. Substantially only the magnetic field in the vicinity of the gun is affected, and essentially no scalloping degradation of the beam in the interaction region is observed.
Abstract:
A klystron includes a source for emitting at least one electron beam, and an accelerator for accelarating the beam in a given direction through a number of drift tube sections successively aligned relative to one another in the direction of the beam. A number of electrostatic quadrupole arrays are successively aligned relative to one another along at least one of the drift tube sections in the beam direction for focusing the electron beam. Each of the electrostatic quadrupole arrays forms a different quadrupole for each electron beam. Two or more electron beams can be maintained in parallel relationship by the quadrupole arrays, thereby enabling space charge limitations encountered with conventional single beam klystrons to be overcome.
Abstract:
High-power linear-beam electron tubes require an extended uniform magnetic field to focus their beam in an elongated cylinder. When permanent magnets are used to energize the magnet structure, there is inevitably a leakage field outside the main flux-return path. The leakage field can refocus the beam in the tube's collector, damaging it. When the collector has air-cooling fins, it is not practical to shield it completely with magnetic material. In the invention, the leakage field is reduced by making the energizing magnet at the collector end axially magnetized and the magnet at the cathode end radially magnetized. Also, a shield around the outside of the fins may be added.
Abstract:
An inverse reflex tetrode (IRT) for producing an intense pulsed beam of i includes a real cathode having a curved or conical surface which is substantially transparent to the ions; first anode and second anode, or grid, which are spaced apart and are at the same potential, the first anode being between the real cathode and the second anode and having a curved or conical surface approximately parallel to the surface of the real cathode, and also being formed from a dielectric material such as polyethylene; a curved or conical hollow anode stalk which supports both anodes; and a virtual cathode which is formed by electrons that are emitted by the real cathode and pass through the first anode. The real cathode and first and second anodes are enclosed in a vacuum chamber and are immersed in an applied external magnetic field. The IRT receives an electrical pulse from a high-voltage pulse generator. The real cathode emits electrons which accelerate toward the first anode, pass through the first anode and form a virtual cathode between the first and second anodes. Most of the electrons oscillate between the virtual cathode and the real cathode and form a plasma sheath on the surfaces of the first anode. Some ions from the plasma propagate toward the second anode, and some ions propagate toward the real cathode. The ions arrive at the second anode with zero velocity, while the other ions pass through the real cathode and form a propagating ion beam.