Circular accelerator

• US 7,982,416 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2008
• Issued: 07/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Hirofumi, Hifumi, Takashi, Kuroda, Yoichi, Yamamoto, Kazuo, Yoshida, Katsuhisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Anh Q
• Application Number:
  US12/277,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20090256501A1
• Time in Patent Office: 966 Days
• Field of Search: 315500-507
• US Class Current: 315/504
• CPC Class Codes: H05H 7/04 Magnet systems , e.g. undulators, wigglers free-electron laser H01S3/0903; Energisation thereof

Abstract

In a circular accelerator, a magnetic pole edge portion of a bending electromagnet into and from which a charged particle beam enters and exits is provided with endpacks. A first protrusion is provided at that part of each end pack which is radially outside the equilibrium orbit of a center energy beam, while a second protrusion is provided at that part of each end pack which is radially inside the equilibrium orbit of the center energy beam. The shapes of the first and second protrusions are set so that the betatron oscillation numbers of beams of different acceleration energies may be held constant or become linear to the energies. In case of emitting the charged particle beam out of the circular accelerator, the change of a tune attributed to the change of the beam orbit can be statically corrected, the tune is linearly changed, and an adjustment of the emission of the beam becomes easy.

Claims

1. A circular accelerator wherein a charged particle beam revolves round an equilibrium orbit, comprising:

bending electromagnets which generate a bending magnetic field, a six-pole electromagnet which generates a magnetic field for correcting a difference of betatron oscillations attributed to a difference of energy of the charged particle beam, and an emission device which extracts the charged particle beam out of the circular accelerator from the equilibrium orbit;

wherein each of those magnetic pole end faces of each of said bending electromagnets into and from which the charged particle beam enters and exits is additionally provided with an endpack which stretches so as to form a plane identical to a magnetic pole face in a revolving direction of the charged particle beam, and which is provided with a first protrusion at a part radially outside a beam equilibrium orbit having center energy of the charged particle beam, and a second protrusion at a part radially inside the beam equilibrium orbit;

the protrusions have flat parts parallel to each other at end parts in the revolving direction of the charged particle beam;

the first protrusion is provided with a first equilibrium-orbit-side end part which extends radially outside the equilibrium orbit of the beam, which has an initial point at a bottom side of the protrusion and leads to the flat part, and which defines an inclination angle θ

₁ to the bottom side, while the second protrusion is provided with a second equilibrium-orbit-side end part which extends radially inside the equilibrium orbit of the beam, which has an initial point at a bottom side of the protrusion and leads to the flat part, and which defines an inclination angle θ

₂ to the bottom side; and

shapes of the first and second protrusions are different due to difference in at least either of coplanarity that the flat parts of the first and second protrusions lie on an identical plane or not, and the identity of the inclination angles θ

₁ and θ

₂.

2. A circular accelerator as defined in claim 1, wherein an endpack end face which joins the initial points of the first and second protrusions is formed between the respective protrusions, and the endpack end face is parallel to the flat parts of the protrusions.

3. A circular accelerator as defined in claim 2, wherein the flat parts of the first and second protrusions lie on an identical plane;

the initial point of the first protrusion lies inside a higher-energy-beam equilibrium orbit which is radially outside the center-energy-beam equilibrium orbit, while the initial point of the second protrusion lies outside a lower-energy-beam equilibrium orbit which is radially inside the center-energy-beam equilibrium orbit; and

the inclination angle θ

₁ is smaller than the inclination angle θ

₂.

4. A circular accelerator as defined in claim 1, wherein the initial point of the first and second protrusions lie at an intersection point with the center-energy-beam equilibrium orbit.

5. A circular accelerator as defined in claim 4, wherein first and second equilibrium-orbit-side end parts of the first and second protrusions are joined by a smooth curve at the initial points.

6. A circular accelerator as defined in claim 2, wherein an end face of the endpack in the beam revolving direction is provided with inclined surfaces in which a magnetic pole gap enlarges more as a position is spaced more in the revolving direction of the beam, and an inclination angle which the inclination surfaces defines with the magnetic pole face is smaller at a radially outside part of the equilibrium orbit of the beam than at a radially inside part.

7. A circular accelerator as defined in claim 2, wherein the endpack is configured of first and second separate endpacks;

and the first protrusion is provided in the first endpack, while the second protrusion is provided in the second endpack.