US 10,098,218 B2 · Transportable linear accelerator system and transportable neutron source equipped therewith

Abstract

For the purpose of providing a transportable linear accelerator system which can restrain entering of losing ion beams deviated from a trajectory therefor, to thereby efficiently achieve reduction in radioactivity at low cost, and a transportable neutron source equipped therewith, a transportable linear accelerator system is configured to be provided with a beam chopper just before an inlet of a post-accelerator, thereby to cut off, from the proton beams pre-accelerated by a pre-accelerator, uncontrolled proton beams, and thus to radiate only the controlled proton beams to the post-accelerator, so that the proton beams are prevented from hitting an acceleration electrode, etc. of the post accelerator.

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Dependent claims

A transportable neutron source, comprising:

a linear accelerator system, the linear accelerator system comprising:
a pre-accelerator that clusters and pre-accelerates proton beams generated by an ion source,
a beam chopper that cuts off, from the pre-accelerated proton beams, proton beams deviated from a trajectory therefor, to thereby cause only the proton beams controlled by the pre-accelerator to pass through the beam chopper, and
a post-accelerator that accelerates up to a given energy the proton beams having passed through the beam chopper;
a target part that introduces the proton beams from the transportable linear accelerator system to thereby generate neutron beams;
and
a detector that captures the neutron beams after being radiated from the target part to an object and passing through the object.

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Transportable linear accelerator system and transportable neutron source equipped therewith

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Transportable linear accelerator system and transportable neutron source equipped therewith

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Abstract

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