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RHODOTRON Accelerators for Industrial Electron-Beam Processing : A Progress Report
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Jongen, Yves Abs, Michel Delvigne, Thierry Herer, A. S. Capdevila, J. Mª Génin, Frédéric Nguyen, A. |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Abstract | Rhodotrons are electron accelerators based on the principle of "re-circulating" a beam through successive diameters of a single coaxial cavity resonating in metric waves. Such design makes it possible to achieve CW acceleration of electron beams to high energies. The original design principle of the Rhodotron was first proposed in 1989 by J. Pottier from the French Atomic Energy Agency (CEA), who suggested the use of a half-wavelength coaxial cavity, shorted at both ends to accelerate electrons. The principle of operation of the Rhodotron has already been described in length in previous articles. The first industrial Rhodotron (referred as model 1T-200) was built in 1993 at IBA Belgium. It exceeded its expected performances in 1994 with a maximum beam output power of 110 kW at 10 MeV (100 kW expected), and a high power efficiency of 38% at full beam power (25% expected). Three industrial Rhodotron systems ranging from 35 kW to 200 kW beam power at 10 MeV have been completely designed, and are routinely manufactured at IBA's facilities in Louvain-la-Neuve. Specifications of these industrial accelerators were chosen in order to address the needs of the market of industrial irradiation for simple, compact and reliable high-power EB units. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/e96/PAPERS/THPG/THP076G.PDF |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
