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The Ion Cyclotron Resonance Accelerator (ICRA) is ideally suited
for the production of radioisotopes or neutrons. The general theory of
the ICRA and the designs of and simulation results for a
proof-of-principle, one MeV ICRA and a 10 MeV ICRA for isotope or
neutron production are presented
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... beam is accelerated in the magnetron structure by the rf electric field transverse to the constant magnetic field. A four gap magnetron structure is shown in Figure 2. A first-order estimate of the accelerating voltage is obtained by assuming a magnetron cavity consisting of a hyperbolic fin structure with 2n vanes. In this case, the potential, V, for r<r 0 can be written ...
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The Ion Cyclotron Resonance Accelerator (ICRA) uses a novel
geometry which combines the radial confinement and azimuthal
acceleration of cyclotrons together with the axial drift used in
gyrotrons. Use of a common NbTi superconducting solenoid and an RF
driven magnetron structure lead to a simple, lightweight, and compact
machine that could be designed for portability. An ICRA designed to
accelerate protons to 10 MeV would be ideal for production of PET
isotopes or as an accelerator based neutron source. As a demonstration
of the concept, an ICRA has been built that accelerates a proton beam to
50 keV. This paper presents the 50 keV design and gives experimental
results
