EP2540143A2 - Beschleuniger für geladene teilchen - Google Patents
Beschleuniger für geladene teilchenInfo
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- the invention relates to a charged particle accelerator having a capacitor stack of concentrically arranged electrodes, as used in particular for generating electromagnetic radiation.
- Particle accelerators serve to accelerate charged particles to high energies.
- particle accelerators are also becoming increasingly important in medicine and for many industrial purposes.
- linear accelerators and cyclotrons which are usually very complex and expensive devices, are used to produce a particle beam in the MV range.
- Such accelerators are used in free electron lasers (FEL). A fast electron beam accelerated by the accelerator is subjected to periodic deflection to produce synchrotron radiation.
- FEL free electron lasers
- Such accelerators can also be used in X-ray sources in which X-radiation is generated by a laser beam interacting with a relativistic electron beam, whereby X-rays are emitted due to inverse Compon-scattering.
- Another form of known particle accelerators are so-called electrostatic particle accelerators with a DC high voltage source.
- the data to be ⁇ admirenden particles are exposed to a static electric field.
- cascade accelerators also Cockcroft-Walton accelerators
- cascade accelerators also Cockcroft-Walton accelerators
- a Greinacher Circuit which is repeatedly connected (cascaded)
- generates a high DC voltage by multiplying and rectifying an AC voltage, thus providing a strong electric field.
- the invention has for its object to provide an accelerator for the acceleration of charged particles, which enables a particularly efficient Crystalchenbe ⁇ accelerated acceleration to high particle energies in a compact design and thus can be used to generate electromagnetic radiation.
- the accelerator according to the invention for accelerating charged particles has:
- a second electrode which is arranged concentrically to the first electrode and can be brought to a second, different from the first potential potential, with at least one intermediate electrode, which is arranged concentrically between the first electrode and the second electrode, and on a Intermediate potential can be brought, which is located between the first potential and the second potential.
- first acceleration channel which is gebil ⁇ det through first openings in the electrodes of the condensate so that charged particles along the first acceleration channel can be accelerated by the electrodes.
- second acceleration channel which is formed by second openings in the electrodes of the capacitor stack, so that can be accelerated along the second Be ⁇ admirungskanals charged particles through the electrodes.
- an apparatus is carried out with an influencing of the accelerated particle beam within the capacitor stack, which emitted from the part ⁇ chenstrahl photons are generated.
- the device creates an interaction with the accelerated particle beam, which changes the energy, the speed and / or the direction of travel.
- the electromagnetic radiation in particular coherent electromagnetic radiation ⁇ emanating from the particle beam, are generated.
- the capacitor stack may comprise a plurality of intermediate electrodes arranged concentrically with one another, which are connected by the switching device such that, during operation of the switching device, the intermediate electrodes are brought to a sequence of increasing potential levels between the first potential and the second potential.
- the Po ⁇ tentiallien of the electrodes of the capacitor stack are increasing in accordance with the order of concentric Anord ⁇ voltage.
- the high voltage electrode may in this case be located at the kon ⁇ central arrangement innermost electrode while the outermost electrode for example may be a ground electrode.
- An accelerating potential is formed between the first and second electrodes.
- the capacitor stack and the switching device thus represent a DC high voltage source, since the central electrode can be brought to a high potential.
- the provided by the high voltage source Potentialdiffe ⁇ rence allows to operators, the device as an accelerator ben.
- the electric potential energy is converted into kinetic energy of the particles by applying the high potential between the particle source and the target.
- the concentrated ⁇ tharide stack is pierced by two rows of holes.
- Charged particles are provided from a source, accelerated through the first accelerating channel toward the central electrode. Subsequently, after interaction with the device in the center of the capacitor stack, for example within the innermost electrode, the charged particles are guided away from the central electrode through the second acceleration channel and can then escape to the outside.
- the exhaust braking of the beam in the electric field recovers the spent to speed up energy so that in Ver ⁇ pared to spent electrical power very large beam currents and thus a large luminance can be achieved. It is altogether possible to achieve a particle energy in the MV range in a compact design and to provide a continuous beam.
- a source which may be located substantially at ground potential may provide for example, negatively charged particles that are injected as a particle beam and are accelerated by the first acceleration ⁇ channel to the central electrode.
- the concentric arrangement allows a total kompak ⁇ te construction and a convenient way to isolate the central elec- rode.
- one or more concentric intermediate electrodes are placed on SITUATE designated potentials.
- the potential steps are successively rising and can be selected in such a manner that yields a uniform in the extensive field strength in ⁇ In Neren the entire insulation volume.
- the inserted intermediate electrode (s) also increase the breakdown field strength limit so that higher DC voltages can be generated than without intermediate electrodes. This is based on the fact that the breakdown field strength in vacuum is approximately inversely proportional to the square root of the electrode spacings .
- the introduced / n intermediate electrode / n with which the electric field in the interior of the DC voltage high-voltage source is uniform, at the same time contribute to an advantageous increase in the possible achievable field strength.
- the device is designed to provide a laser beam which interacts with the accelerated particle beam in such a way that the emitted photons result from an inverse Compton scattering of the laser beam on the charged particles of the accelerated particle beam.
- the emitted photons are coherent.
- the laser beam can advantageously be obtained by forming a focus within the laser cavity.
- the energy of the laser beam, the acceleration of the particles and / or the particle type can be coordinated with one another such that the emitted photons are in the X-ray range.
- the accelerator can be operated as a compact coherent X-ray source.
- the particle beam may be an electron beam.
- an electron source e.g. outside the extreme
- Electrode of the capacitor stack can be arranged.
- the device is designed to generate a magnetic transverse field, for example with a dipole magnet, to the course direction of the particle beam.
- a deflection of the accelerated particle beam is effected, so that the photons are emitted as synchrotron radiation from the particle beam.
- the accelerator can thereby be used as synchrotron radiation source and in particular as Free electron laser by coherent superposition of the individual radiation lobes.
- the apparatus may in particular gene erzeu- a magnetic transverse field, which causes along a path inside the Kondensatorsta ⁇ pels a periodic deflection of the accelerated particle beam, for example by a series of dipole magnets. This allows the accelerator to generate coherent photons particularly efficiently.
- the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the particle beam can exit through a channel through the electrode stack.
- the electrodes of the capacitor stack are insulated from each other by vacuum insulation. In this way, can be the most efficient, ie achieve space-saving and robust isolation of the high voltage electric ⁇ de.
- the insulation volume consequently has a high vacuum.
- the use of insulating materials would have the disadvantage that the materials are subject to stress due to a direct electrical field for the application of internal charges - which are caused in particular by ionizing radiation during operation of the accelerator.
- the coupled, migratory charges cause a strong inhomogeneous electric field strength in all physical insulators, which then leads to the local transgression of the breakdown limit and thus the formation of spark channels. Isolation by high vacuum avoids such disadvantages.
- the exploitable in stable len operating electric field strength can be as ⁇ by enlarge.
- the arrangement is thus essentially - except for a few components such as the suspension of the electrodes - free of insulator materials.
- the use of vacuum also has the advantage that no separate jet pipe must be provided which would in turn comprises at least partially a ⁇ insulator top surface. Again, it avoids that critical see problems of wall discharge along the Isolatoroberflä ⁇ Chen would occur because the acceleration channel now does not have to have insulator surfaces. An acceleration channel is formed only by in-line openings in the electrodes.
- the switching device comprises a high-voltage cascade, in particular a greyscale cascade or a Cockcroft-Walton cascade.
- a high-voltage cascade in particular a greyscale cascade or a Cockcroft-Walton cascade.
- the first electrode, the second electrode and the intermediate electrodes for generating the DC voltage can be charged by means of a comparatively low AC voltage.
- This embodiment is based on the idea of high-voltage generation, as is made possible, for example, by a Greinacher rectifier cascade.
- the capacitor stack is divided into two mutually separated capacitor chains through a gap extending through the electrodes.
- the two capacitor chains can be used advantageously for the training ⁇ tion of a cascaded switching device such as a Greina- or Cockcroft-Walton cascade.
- Chain capacitor arrangement thereby provides a turn kon ⁇ concentrically arranged to each other (sub-) electrodes is.
- the separation may be e.g. through a cut along the equator, which then leads to two hemisphere stacks.
- the individual capacitors of the chains can be loaded in such a circuit respectively to the peak-to-peak voltage of the primary AC input voltage, which is used for charging the high voltage source.
- the above-mentioned potential equilibration, a uniform electric field distribution ment and thus optimum utilization of the isolation distance can be achieved in a simple manner.
- the switching device which comprises a high-voltage cascade, can advantageously connect the two capacitor chains which are separate from one another and, in particular, be arranged in the gap.
- the AC input voltage ⁇ for the high voltage cascade can advertising created the outermost electrode of the capacitor between the chains at the ⁇ , as these can for example be accessible from the outside.
- the diode strings of a rectifier circuit can then be mounted in the equatorial gap, thereby saving space.
- the electrodes of the capacitor stack may be shaped such that they lie on an ellipsoidal surface, in particular a spherical surface, or on a cylinder surface. These forms are physically cheap. Particularly favorable is the choice of the shape of the electrodes as in a hollow sphere or the ball capacitor.
- Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of a Greinacherschal- device, as it is known from the prior art.
- Fig. 2 is a schematic representation of a section through ei ⁇ ne DC high voltage source with a part ⁇ chenttle in the center
- Fig. 3 is a schematic representation of a section through ei ⁇ ne DC high voltage source of Fig. 2 toward the center, decreasing electrode spacing,
- FIG. 4 shows a schematic illustration of a section through a DC voltage high-voltage source, which is shown as being free
- Fig. 5 is a schematic representation of a section through ei ⁇ ne DC high voltage source which is designed as a coherent X-ray source,
- FIG. 6 is a schematic representation of the electrode assembly with a stack of cylindrically arranged electrodes
- Fig. 7 is an illustration of the diodes of the switching device, which are formed as vacuum piston-free electron tubes
- Figure 8 is a diagram showing the charging process in response to pumping cycles
- Fig. 9 shows the advantageous Kirchhoff shape of the electrode ends.
- Fig. 1 An AC voltage U is applied.
- the first half-wave charges the capacitor 15 via the diode 13 the voltage U on.
- the voltage U from the capacitor 13 is added to the voltage U at the input 11, so that the capacitor 17 is now charged via the diode 19 to the voltage 2U.
- This process is repeated in the subsequent diodes and capacitors, so that in the circuit shown in Fig. 1 total of the output 21, the voltage 6U is achieved.
- the Fig. 2 also clearly shows how a first capacitor chain and the second set 25 of Kon ⁇ capacitors forms a second capacitor chain through the Darge ⁇ set circuit of each of the first set 23 of capacitors.
- FIG 2 shows a schematic section through a high-voltage source 31 with a central electrode 37, an outer electrode 39 and a series of intermediate electrodes 33, which are interconnected by a high-voltage cascade 35 whose principle has been explained in FIG high tension ⁇ voltage cascade 35 can be loaded.
- the electrodes 39, 37, 33 are hollow-spherical and arranged concentrically with each other. The maximum electric field strength that can be applied is proportional to the curvature of the electrodes. Therefore, a spherical shell geometry is particularly favorable.
- the outermost electrode 39 may be a ground electrode.
- the electrodes 37, 39, 33 are in two spaced, divided or separated by a gap hemisphere stack.
- the first hemisphere stack forms a first Kondensa ⁇ torkette 41
- the second hemisphere stack a second Kondensa ⁇ torkette 43rd
- the voltage U of an AC voltage source 45 is applied to the outermost electrode shell halves 39 ', 39 ".
- the diodes 49 for forming the circuit are arranged in the region of the great circle of the semi-hollow spheres, ie in the equatorial section 47 of the respective hollow spheres.
- the diodes 49 form the cross-connections between the two capacitor chains 41, 43, which correspond to the two sets 23, 25 of capacitors of Fig. 1.
- an acceleration channel 51 which originates from a particle source 53 located in the interior, for example, leads through the second condenser chain 43 and permits extraction of the particle stream.
- the particle of charged particles experiences a high Accelerati ⁇ supply voltage from the high voltage electrode hohlku- gel 37th
- the high voltage source 31 or the particle accelerator has the advantage that the high voltage generator and the particle accelerator are integrated with each other, since then all electrodes and intermediate electrodes can be accommodated in the smallest possible volume.
- the entire electrode assembly is isolated by vacuum insulation.
- particularly high voltages of the high voltage electrode 37 can be generated, resulting in a particularly high particle energy result.
- vacuum as an insulator and the use of an inter-electrode distance of the order of 1 cm make it possible to achieve electric field strengths of values above 20 MV / m.
- the use of vacuum has the advantage that the accelerator during loading ⁇ drive must not be loaded because the occurring in the Be ⁇ acceleration radiation at insulator materials can cause problems. This allows the construction of smaller and more compact machines.
- FIG. 3 shows a development of the high-voltage source shown in FIG. 2, in which the spacing of the electrodes 39, 37, 33 decreases towards the center.
- Ausgestal ⁇ tung the decrease of voltage applied to the outer electrode 39 pumping AC voltage toward the center can be compensated, so that nevertheless there is a substantially equal field strength between adjacent pairs of electrodes.
- a largely constant field strength along the acceleration channel 51 can be achieved.
- This embodiment can also be applied to the applications and configurations explained below.
- FIG. 2 shows a development of the high-voltage source shown in FIG. 2 to the free electron laser 61.
- the switching device 35 of FIG. 2 is not shown for clarity, but is identical in the high voltage source shown in FIG. Likewise, the structure may have an electrode gap decreasing towards the center, as shown in FIG.
- the first capacitor chain 41 also has an acceleration channel 53 which leads through the electrodes 33, 37, 39.
- a magnetic device 55 is arranged, with which the particle beam can be deflected periodically. It is then possible to generate electrons outside the high-voltage source 61, to accelerate them along the acceleration channel 53 through the first capacitor chain 41 to the central high-voltage electrode 37.
- coherent synchrotron radiation 57 is generated, and the accelerator can be operated as a free electron laser 61.
- the acceleration channel 51 of the second condenser chain 43 the electron beam is decelerated again and the energy used for the acceleration can be recovered.
- the outermost spherical shell 39 can be largely closed lead ⁇ ben and thus take over the function of a grounded housing.
- the immediately underlying hemisphere shell can then be the capacity of an LC resonant circuit and part of the drive ⁇ connection of the switching device.
- N 50 stages on ⁇ , ie a total of 100 diodes and capacitors.
- the outer radius is 0.55 m. In each hemisphere find 50 spaces at a distance of 1 cm between adjacent spherical shells.
- a smaller number of stages reduces the number of La ⁇ deco cycles and the effective internal source impedance, but increases the requirements for the pump charging voltage.
- the diodes arranged in the equatorial gap, which connect the two hemispherical stacks together, may be e.g. be arranged in a spiral pattern.
- the total capacity can be 74 pF according to equation (3.4) and the stored energy 3.7 kJ.
- a charging current of 2 mA requires an operating frequency of approximately 100 kHz.
- Fig. 5 shows a modification of loading shown in Fig. 4 Schleuniger to a source 61 'for coherent X-Ray ⁇ lung.
- a laser device 59 is arranged, with which a laser beam 58 can be generated and directed onto the particle beam.
- photons 57 'due to inverse Compton scattering are generated, which are emitted by the particle beam.
- FIG. 6 illustrates an electrode mold in which hollow-cylindrical electrodes 33, 37, 39 are arranged concentrically with one another. Through a gap, the electrode stack in split two separate capacitor chains, wel ⁇ che can be connected to a similar to FIG. 2 constructed switching device.
- Fig. 7 shows an embodiment of the diodes of the switching device shown. The concentrically arranged, hemispherical shell-like electrodes 39, 37, 33 are shown only for the sake of clarity.
- the diodes are shown here as electron tubes 63, with egg ⁇ ner cathode 65 and an opposite anode 67. Since the switching device is arranged in the vacuum insulation, eliminates the vacuum vessel of the electron tubes, which would otherwise be necessary for Be ⁇ operation of the electrons.
- the electron tubes 63 can be controlled by thermal heating or by light.
- the arrangement follows the principle shown in Fig. 1, to arrange the high voltage electrode inside the accelerator and the concentric ground electrode on the outside of the accelerometer ⁇ niger.
- a ball capacitor with inner radius r and outer radius R has the capacity r R
- Modern avalanche semiconductor diodes (“soft avalanche semiconductor diodes”) have very low parasitic capacitances and have short recovery times.
- a series circuit does not need resistors for potential equilibration.
- the operating frequency can be set comparatively high in order to use the relatively small interelectrode capacitances of the two Greinacher capacitor stacks.
- a voltage of Ui n ⁇ 100kV, ie 70 kV eff can be used.
- the diodes must withstand voltages of 200 kV. This can be achieved by using chains of diodes with a lower tolerance. For example, ten 20 kV diodes can be used.
- Diodes can be, for example, diodes from the company Philips with the designation BY724, diodes from the company EDAL with the designation BR757-200A or diodes from the company Fuji with the designation ESJA5320A.
- T rr 100 ns for BY724, minimize losses.
- the dimension of the BY724 diode of 2.5mm x 12.5mm allows all 1000 diodes for the switching device to be accommodated in a single equatorial plane for the spherical tandem accelerator specified below.
- the chain of diodes may be formed by a plurality of mesh-like electrodes of the electron tubes connected to the hemispherical shells. Each electrode acts on the one hand as a cathode, on the other hand as an anode.
- the central idea is to reconcile the concentric cut through arranged electrodes on an equatorial plane.
- the two resulting electrode stacks represent the cascade capacitors. It is only necessary to connect the string of diodes to opposite electrodes across the cutting plane. It ismilamer ⁇ ken, that the rectifier automatically stabilizes the potential differences between the successively arranged electrodes to about 2 Uin, suggesting constant electrode spacings.
- the drive voltage is applied between the two outer Hemi spheres.
- the steady state operation provides an operating frequency f a
- the charge pump provides a generator source impedance
- Rectifier reduces a capacitive imbalance ⁇ favor of the low-voltage part of the values of R and R G R ⁇ low yoggig compared with the usual choice of same capacitors.
- the rectifier diodes In Greinacher cascades, the rectifier diodes essentially pick up the AC voltage, turn it into DC voltage and accumulate it to a high DC output voltage.
- the AC voltage is conducted from the two capacitor columns to the high voltage electrode, and attenuated by the DC ⁇ judge currents and stray capacitances between the two columns.
- this discrete structure can be approximated by a continuous transmission line structure.
- the capacitor structure represents a longitudinal impedance with a length-specific impedance 3. Strain capacitances between the two columns introduce a length-specific shunt admittance. Thethermsstape ⁇ development of the rectifier diodes causes an additional specific current load J, which is proportional to the DC load current Iout and the density of the taps along the transmission ⁇ line.
- the peak-to-peak ripple is on
- the average DC output voltage is then and the DC peak-to-peak ripple of the DC voltage
- the optimal electrode spacing ensures a constant DC electric field strength 2 E at the planned DC load current.
- the specific AC load current along the transmission line depends on the position u * ⁇ ⁇ -.
- the AC voltage follows
- a reduction of the load always increases the tension ⁇ voltages between the electrodes, therefore an operation with little or no load may exceed the allowable E and the maximum belast ⁇ bility of the rectifier columns. It may therefore be advisable to optimize the design for unloaded operation.
- the diodes essentially tap the AC voltage, direct it and accumulate it along the transmission line.
- the average DC output voltage is thus
- the DC output voltage is a
- the optimum edge shape is known as the KIRCHHOFF shape (see below),
- the electrode shape is shown in FIG.
- the electrodes have a normalized distance unit and an asymptotic Di ⁇ blocks 1 - A far away from the edge extending to the end face egg ner vertical edge with the height
- the thickness of the electrodes can be arbitrarily small, without introducing noticeable E field distortions.
- the optimum shape for freestanding high voltage electrodes are ROGOWSKI and BORDA profiles, with a peak in the E-field amplitude of twice the undistorted field strength.
- the drive voltage generator must provide high AC voltage at high frequency.
- the usual approach is to boost an average AC voltage through a high isolation output transformer. Disturbing internal resonances caused by unavoidable winding capacitances and stray inductances make designing a design for such a transformer a challenge.
- An alternative may be a charge pump, i. be a periodically operated semiconductor Marx generator.
- a charge pump i. be a periodically operated semiconductor Marx generator.
- Such a circuit provides an output voltage with a change between ground and a high voltage of a single polarity, and efficiently charges the first capacitor of the capacitor chain.
- the electrode area has a ⁇ we sentlichen influence on the breakthrough field strength.
- planar electrodes made of stainless steel with 10 ⁇ 3 m spacing the following applies:
- the dielectric SCHWAIGER utilization factor n is considered to be the inverse of the local E Field peaking due to field inhomogeneities defined, ie the ratio of the E field of an ideal flat Elek ⁇ rodenan extract and the peak surface E field of Geomet ⁇ rie under consideration of the same reference voltages and distances.
- the front sides are flat.
- An electrode surface represents an aquipotential line of the electric field analogous to a free surface of a flowing liquid.
- a stress-free electrode follows the flow field line.
- each possible function w (v) over a flow velocity v or a hodograph plane leads to an z-mapping of the plane
- the magnitude of the Ablei ⁇ tion on the electrode surface can be normalized to one, and the height DE can be compared to AF as A who ⁇ den den (see Fig. 6).
- the curve CD maps to arc i 1 on the unit circle.
- Fig. 8 A and F correspond to 1 / A, B to the origin, C i, D and E correspond to 1.
- the complete flow pattern is mapped in the first quadrant of the unit circle.
- the source of the streamlines is 1 / A, that of the sink 1.
- the potential function ⁇ is thus defined by four sources on positions + A, -A, 1 / A, -1 / A and two sinks of magnitude 2 to ⁇ 1.
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