Inter-university Research Institute Corporation High Energy Accelerator Research Organization

Inter-university Research Institute Corporation

Ken Takayama

Yoshio Arakida

Kota Torikai

Yoshito Shimosaki

Junichi Kishiro

Reiko Kishiro, Legal Representative

The present invention provides a set of induction accelerating cell for controlling acceleration of a charged particle beam and an induction accelerating device for controlling generation timing of an induced voltage applied by the induction accelerating cell in a synchrotron. The induction accelerating device in a synchrotron includes: an induction accelerating cell that applies an induced voltage; a switching power supply that supplies a pulse voltage to the induction accelerating cell via a transmission line and drives said induction accelerating cell; a DC power supply that supplies electric power to the switching power supply; and an intelligent control device including a pattern generator that generates a gate signal pattern for controlling on/off the switching power supply, and a digital signal processing device that controls on/off a gate master signal that becomes the basis of the gate signal pattern.

Induction accelerating device and acceleration method of charged particle beam

An object of the invention is to provide the orbit control device for modulating the orbital deviations of the charged particle beam and its control method, wherein in the synchrotron making use of induction cells, the charged particle beam orbit control device is comprised of the digital signal processor for controlling the generation timing of an induced voltage in response to the beam position signal from the beam position monitor for sensing the deviations of the charged particle beam on the design orbit of the synchrotron from the design orbit and to the passage signal from the bunch monitor for sensing the passage of the bunch and the pattern generator for generating a gate signal pattern for on/off-selecting the switching electric power supply a according to the master gate signal generated by the digital signal processor.

Induced voltage control device, its control method, charged particle beam orbit control device, and its control method

An accelerator that can accelerate by itself all ions up to any energy level allowed by the magnetic fields for beam guiding, and provides an all-ion accelerator in which with trigger timing and a charging time of an induced voltage applied to an ion beam injected from a preinjector by induction cells for confinement and acceleration used in an induction synchrotron, digital signal processors for confinement and acceleration and pattern generators for confinement and acceleration generate gate signal patterns for confinement and acceleration on the basis of a passage signal of the ion beam and an induced voltage signal for indicating the value of the induced voltage applied to the ion beam, and intelligent control devices for confinement and acceleration perform feedback control of on/off of the induction cells for confinement and acceleration.

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Tsuchiura, Japan

Ken Takayama