Journal of Nuclear Science, Engineering and Technology (JONSAT)
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Construction of the 150kV Electrostatic Accelerator Tube

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

J Rahighi
M Jafarzadeh Khatibani
S.M Sadati
H Ghods
Abstract
An electrostatic accelerator tube capable of accelerating proton, deuteron, alpha beam and heavier ions up to an energy of 150keV has been designed and constructed. This tube can be operated with a Cockroft-Walton type high voltage generator. The construction of the tube is important from two different standpoints. First, because it will initiate the use of low energy accelerators for both scientific and industrial development in country and also this step will lead the country toward approaching the accelerator design technology, an issue which has been severely overlooked for the past few decades. The present accelerator tube consists of 11 different electrodes forming 3 cylindrical lenses, i.e., extractor lens, focusing lens and cooling lens. An accelerator column which includes 7 collimating lenses follows the cooling lens. The tube can accelerate 2H+ up to an energy of 150keV. The accelerator column was successfully tested for the high vacuum and the voltage up to 150kV. A radio frequency type ion source was used to check the performance of the tube. Measurements demonstrated that a beam current close to 850µA can be readily obtained in the present system.

Highlights

  1. 1.    Waldemar Scharf, “Particle accelerator and their uses,” Harwood Academic, New York (1978).

 

  1. 2.    J.B. Hourst, M. Roche, J. Morin, Nucl. Instr. Methods, 145, 19-24 (1977).

 

  1. 3.    Steve. Honsen, the Bell Jar, 6(314), 1-9 (1997).

 

  1. 4.    Jinchoon kim, Nucl. Instr. Methods, 145, 9-17 (1977).

 

  1. 5.    Martone, M. Angelone, M. Pillon, M. Proc. SPIE. 2339, 208.

 

  1. 6.    David A. Dahl, SIMION 3D version 7.0 User’s Manual (2000).

 

  1. 7.    James H. Billen, Poisson Superfish, LA–UR–96–1834 (2003).

 

  1. 8.    R. Hellborg, Electrostatic accelerators, Springer, New York (2005).

 

  1. 9.    M.E. Abdelaziz, M.M. Abdelbaki, S.G. Zokhary, CH 2387-9/87/0000-0331 IEEE. 331 (1987).

 

10. Huashun Zhang, Ion Sources, Springer, New York (1999).

 

11. Miklos Szilagyi, Electron and ion optics, Pelenum, New York (1988).

 

 

 

  1. A. Maitland, New Derivation of vacuum breakdown, J. Appl. Phys. 32, 2399 (1961).

 

  1. T.W. Aitken, “The design study for the Nuclear Structural Facility at Daresbury,” Daresbury Laboratory Report DNPL/NSF/R5 (1973).

 

  1. J. Huguenin and R. Dubois, CERN Report, CERN. 22 (1965).

 

  1. TH.J.M. Sluyters, R. Amari, V. Kovarik, Brookhaven National Laboratory Report AGS DIV. 11 (1969).

 

  1. R.G. Herb, D.B. Parkinson, D.W. Kerst, Phys. Rev 48, 118 (1935).

 

  1. Harding, US Patent 3729575, High Voltage insulator coating (1973).

 

  1. Shirin Yar Co. theran, Iran, www.sheerinyar.com.

 

Keywords

Accelerator Tube
Electrostatic Accelerator
Electrostatic Lenses
SIMION
Superfish
Ion Optics
  1. 1.    Waldemar Scharf, “Particle accelerator and their uses,” Harwood Academic, New York (1978).

 

  1. 2.    J.B. Hourst, M. Roche, J. Morin, Nucl. Instr. Methods, 145, 19-24 (1977).

 

  1. 3.    Steve. Honsen, the Bell Jar, 6(314), 1-9 (1997).

 

  1. 4.    Jinchoon kim, Nucl. Instr. Methods, 145, 9-17 (1977).

 

  1. 5.    Martone, M. Angelone, M. Pillon, M. Proc. SPIE. 2339, 208.

 

  1. 6.    David A. Dahl, SIMION 3D version 7.0 User’s Manual (2000).

 

  1. 7.    James H. Billen, Poisson Superfish, LA–UR–96–1834 (2003).

 

  1. 8.    R. Hellborg, Electrostatic accelerators, Springer, New York (2005).

 

  1. 9.    M.E. Abdelaziz, M.M. Abdelbaki, S.G. Zokhary, CH 2387-9/87/0000-0331 IEEE. 331 (1987).

 

10. Huashun Zhang, Ion Sources, Springer, New York (1999).

 

11. Miklos Szilagyi, Electron and ion optics, Pelenum, New York (1988).

 

 

 

  1. A. Maitland, New Derivation of vacuum breakdown, J. Appl. Phys. 32, 2399 (1961).

 

  1. T.W. Aitken, “The design study for the Nuclear Structural Facility at Daresbury,” Daresbury Laboratory Report DNPL/NSF/R5 (1973).

 

  1. J. Huguenin and R. Dubois, CERN Report, CERN. 22 (1965).

 

  1. TH.J.M. Sluyters, R. Amari, V. Kovarik, Brookhaven National Laboratory Report AGS DIV. 11 (1969).

 

  1. R.G. Herb, D.B. Parkinson, D.W. Kerst, Phys. Rev 48, 118 (1935).

 

  1. Harding, US Patent 3729575, High Voltage insulator coating (1973).

 

  1. Shirin Yar Co. theran, Iran, www.sheerinyar.com.

 

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