Particle accelerator system
AssigneeSumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorNobuaki Takahashi
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Abstract
A particle accelerator system including a particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles, a signal source that outputs high frequency power for accelerating the charged particles in the particle accelerator, an amplifying unit that amplifies the high frequency power from the signal source, and supplies the high frequency power to the particle accelerator, the amplifying unit including a plurality of semiconductor amplifiers using a semiconductor, and a control unit that controls an operation of the amplifying unit. The control unit controls output of at least one of the plurality of semiconductor amplifiers.
Claims8
A particle accelerator system comprising:
- a particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles;
- a signal source that outputs high frequency power for accelerating the charged particles in the particle accelerator;
- an amplifying unit that amplifies the high frequency power from the signal source, and supplies the high frequency power to the particle accelerator, the amplifying unit including a plurality of semiconductor amplifiers using a semiconductor;
- and
- a control unit that controls an operation of the amplifying unit,
- wherein the control unit controls output of at least one of the plurality of semiconductor amplifiers, wherein the particle accelerator is a cyclotron,
- wherein the cyclotron has a cavity to which the high frequency power amplified by the amplifying unit is supplied,
- wherein the cavity is provided with a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage in the cavity, and
- wherein in a case where the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit decreases due to a presence of an unusable semiconductor amplifier, the control unit controls output of each of the semiconductor amplifiers such that the voltage becomes a predetermined set value.
A particle accelerator system comprising:
- a particle accelerator that accelerates charged particles;
- a signal source that outputs high frequency power for accelerating the charged particles in the particle accelerator;
- an amplifying unit that amplifies the high frequency power from the signal source, and supplies the high frequency power to the particle accelerator, the amplifying unit including a plurality of semiconductor amplifiers using a semiconductor;
- and
- a control unit that controls an operation of the amplifying unit,
- wherein the control unit controls output of at least one of the plurality of semiconductor amplifiers,
- wherein each of the semiconductor amplifiers is connected to a DC power source,
- wherein the particle accelerator is a cyclotron,
- wherein the cyclotron has a cavity to which the high frequency power amplified by the amplifying unit is supplied,
- wherein the cavity is provided with a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage in the cavity, and
- wherein in a case where the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit decreases due to a presence of an unusable semiconductor amplifier, the control unit controls output of each of the semiconductor amplifiers such that the voltage becomes a predetermined set value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.