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Proton source

  • US 5,017,882 A
  • Filed: 08/22/1989
  • Issued: 05/21/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A pulsed proton source comprising a cyclotron having input means for producing a source of negatively ionized particles and accelerating means for accelerating the ionized particles, a proton storage ring coaxial with the cyclotron, means for directing the accelerated particles from said cyclotron along a path which in a first stage passes radially outside said proton storage ring, in a second stage extends back towards the proton storage ring and in a third stage extends tangentially into said proton storage ring, and means at the point of entry of the accelerated particles into the storage ring for converting said negatively ionized particles into protons.

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