Patent ID: 9408289
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: H05H

Claim Text:
1. A method for maximizing the brightness of a bunch of charged particles in a particle injector, comprising: a. providing an input beam; b. determining the bunch charge and the initial kinetic energy of the highly space-charge dominated input beam; c. applying the bunch charge and initial kinetic energy properties of the highly space-charge dominated input beam to determine a number of accelerator cavities required to accelerate the bunches to relativistic speed; d. providing the required number of accelerator cavities; e. setting the gradient of the radio frequency (RF) cavities; and f. operating the accelerator cavities at a phase between −90 and zero degrees of the sinusoid of phase to simultaneously accelerate and bunch the charged particles until the beam is relativistic and emittance-dominated.