This course highlights main principles of the cyclotron. For this, you will start from the original motivations to design particles accelerators, you will then run through Linac principles and pass through bending principles to eventually end on cyclotron principles.
This course enables you to undestand the goals of the magnetism subsystem : bending the beam and producing stabilizing forces on the beam during its acceleration.
This course shows how ions are accelerated in a cyclotron. It gives an insight of how large the amplitude of the acceleration voltage must be. It also details how voltage frequency must be related to the rotation frequency of the ions, defining here the harmonic mode. Finally, a brief introduction on implementation and control of the frequency and of the voltage magnitude is given.
This course introduces internal source principles, describing PIG sources, H+ and H- specificities. Transmission parameter and stripping effect are defined. An insignt of the gas flow influence is given. It also gives main features of the external source and highlights the motivations of their design.
- Teacher: Fabrice Loix
This course gives an introduction to two principles used to extract accelerated ions from a cyclotron: the stripping and the electrostatic field effects.
In this training session, you will learn more about targetry principles. Firstly, theoretical concepts are presented. Isotope production main challenges are then introduced. Target and accessories basic principles are explained in the third part. Finally, gas and liquid target key features are highlighted.