Compact, high-efficiency accelerators driven by low-voltage solid-state amplifiers
AssigneeTriad National Security, LLC
InventorsDinh Nguyen, Cynthia Buechler, Gregory Dale, John Lewellen
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Abstract
A compact particle accelerator can include two or more cavities disposed along an axis of the particle accelerator, each of which is coupled to two or more drivers. The accelerator can also include a power supply coupled to the two or more drivers such that a particle beam traveling along the axis is accelerated. The power supply can be an interface with a commercial power outlet, battery power, or a combination thereof depending upon the use case. Example configurations of the accelerator include hand held or mobile devices that are capable of delivering up to and greater than a 1 MeV electron beam.
Claims21
A particle accelerator comprising:
- two or more cavities disposed along an axis of the particle accelerator and configured to be driven independently by solid-state transistor radio frequency (RF) sources;
- two or more independent RF drivers, each with its own phase and amplitude control, independent of the other RF drivers;
- a low-voltage power supply configured to provide power to the two or more RF drivers;
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- a frequency tuner configured to adjust resonance frequencies of the two or more cavities, wherein each of the two or more cavities comprises a linear actuator configured to move under control of the frequency tuner to provide remote and real time adjustment of the resonant frequency of the cavity.
A particle accelerator comprising:
- two or more cavities disposed along an axis of the particle accelerator and configured to be driven independently by solid-state transistor radio frequency (RF) sources;
- two or more independent RF drivers, each with its own phase and amplitude control, independent of the other RF drivers;
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- a low-voltage power supply configured to provide power to the two or more RF drivers,
- wherein the two or more cavities comprise fifty five cavities and the power supply comprises thirty batteries, and the fifty five cavities and the thirty batteries are configured to generate a 1 MeV electron beam along the axis of the particle accelerator.
A particle accelerator comprising:
- two or more cavities disposed along an axis of the particle accelerator and configured to be driven independently by solid-state transistor radio frequency (RF) sources;
- two or more independent RF drivers, each with its own phase and amplitude control, independent of the other RF drivers;
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- a low-voltage power supply configured to provide power to the two or more RF drivers,
- wherein the two or more cavities comprise one hundred thirty eight cavities and the power supply comprises seventy-five batteries, and the one hundred thirty eight cavities and the seventy-five batteries are configured to generate a 5 MeV electron beam.
A particle accelerator comprising:
- three or more cavities disposed along an axis of the particle accelerator and configured to be driven independently by solid-state transistor radio frequency (RF) sources;
- two or more independent RF drivers, each with its own phase and amplitude control, independent of the other RF drivers;
- a third independent RF driver without its own phase control;
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- a low-voltage power supply configured to provide power to the two or more RF drivers and the third RF driver;
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- a frequency tuner configured to adjust resonance frequencies of the two or more cavities, wherein each of the two or more cavities comprises a linear actuator configured to move under control of the frequency tuner to provide remote and real time adjustment of the resonant frequency of the cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.