Compact particle accelerator
| DWPI Title: Compact particle accelerator i.e. large hadron collider, for propelling charged particles, has beam shaper adapted to shape particles accelerated by set of wafers into beam, and output portion operable for outputting shaped beam |
| Abstract: A compact particle accelerator having an input portion configured to receive power to produce particles for acceleration, where the input portion includes a switch, is provided. In a general embodiment, a vacuum tube receives particles produced from the input portion at a first end, and a plurality of wafer stacks are positioned serially along the vacuum tube. Each of the plurality of wafer stacks include a dielectric and metal-oxide pair, wherein each of the plurality of wafer stacks further accelerate the particles in the vacuum tube. A beam shaper coupled to a second end of the vacuum tube shapes the particles accelerated by the plurality of wafer stacks into a beam and an output portion outputs the beam. |
| Use: Compact particle accelerator i.e. large hadron collider, for propelling charged particles in particle physics collider application, oncological therapy purposes, and synchrotron light sources for study of condensed matter physics. |
| Advantage: The accelerator promotes higher efficiency as energy is used more efficiently to support the traveling particles in the structure. The accelerator is capable of using concentric rings to allow higher voltage multiplication per wafer pair. The accelerator is capable of providing vacuum insulation with the stacked dielectric-metal-oxide wafers at the accelerating cavity to provide insulation for the particles being produced, while ensuring reliability and/or scalability benefits at low cost. The layers of dielectric material surrounding the layer of metal oxide material and/or ferroelectric material become connected in series when the layer of metal oxide material and/or ferroelectric material becomes conductive, thus reducing overall capacitance of a variable capacitor. |
| Novelty: The accelerator (300) has a set of wafers (303) operatively coupled to an input portion (301) and positioned serially along a vacuum tube (306), where each of the set of wafers comprises a dielectric and a varistor, and each of the set of wafers accelerates particles in the vacuum tube. A beam shaper (304) is operatively coupled to an end of the vacuum tube, where the beam shaper is adapted to shape the particles accelerated by the set of wafers into a beam. An output portion (305) is operable for outputting the shaped beam. |
| Filed: 8/21/2014 |
| Application Number: US14465698A |
| Tech ID: SD 12018.0 |
| This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |
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