High Intensity Superconducting Cyclotron

Abstract

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology undertook to design, fabricate and test a prototype compact superconducting proton cyclotron which addressed all fundamental design and performance issues for a cyclotron at a final energy of 250 MeV and final beam intensity of 1 mA with less than 0.1% extraction loss. In March 2012, DTRA suspended work on the project indefinitely. This report documents the accomplishments and status of work on the five major subsystems of the project: 1) proton injection using external electron cyclotron resonance source with axial injection using spiral inflector; 2) magnetic field design; 3) radio frequency accelerating cavities; 4) cryogenic system; 5)beam extraction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA574309

Entities

People

  • Joseph V. Minervini

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Convection
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Energy
  • Fabrication
  • Ferromagnetic Materials
  • Heat Transfer
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Magnetic Materials
  • Magnetic Properties
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials Processing
  • Measurement
  • Particle Physics
  • Protons
  • Thermal Conductivity

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics