Cyclotron operating mode determination based on intelligent methods

Faculty Engineering Year: 2011
Type of Publication: Theses Pages: 78
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BibID 11403177
Keywords : Cyclotrons    
Abstract:
Particle accelerators are generators that produce beams of charged particles with energies depending on the accelerator type. The MGC- 20 cyclotron is a cyclic particle accelerator used for accelerating protons, deuterons, alpha particles, and helium-3 to different energies. Main applications are isotopes production, nuclear reactions studies, and mass spectroscopy studies and other industrial applications. The cyclotron is a complicated machine depends on using a strong magnetic field and high frequency-high voltage electric field together to accelerate and bend charged particles inside the accelerating chamber. It consists of the following main parts, the radio frequency system, the main magnet with the auxiliary concentric and harmonic coils, the electrostatic deflector, and the ion source, the beam transport system, and high precision and high stability DC power supplies. To accelerate a particle to certain energy, one has to adjust the cyclotron operating parameters to be suitable to accelerate this particle to that energy. If the cyclotron operating parameters together are adjusted to accelerate a charged particle to certain energy, then these parameters together are named the operating mode to accelerate this particle to that energy. For example the op~ ating mode to accelerate protons to 18 MeV is named the ”18 MeV protons operating mode”. 
   
     
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