29-07-2021 дата публикации
Номер: US20210228911A1
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A time-of-fight measurement system for measuring energy of a pulsed hadron beam, wherein each pulse of the beam is structured into a series of bunches of charged particles, said bunches being repeated according to a repetition rate of the order of magnitude of radiofrequency. The system comprises a first detector, a second detector and a third detector arranged along a beam path, each of the detectors being configured to detect the passage of a bunch of charged particles and provide an output signal dependent on phase of the detected bunch, wherein the second detector is spaced apart from the first detector by a first distance and wherein the third detector is spaced apart from the second detector by a second distance, wherein the first distance is set out in such a way as that time of flight of the bunch from the first detector to the second detector is approximately equal to, or lower than a repetition period of the bunches, and wherein the second distance is set out in such a way as that time of flight of the bunch from the second detector to the third detector is greater than a multiple of the repetition period of the bunches, and a processing unit configured to a) calculate phase shifts between the output signals of the detectors, and b) calculate energy of the pulse based on the calculated phase shifts. 2. A system according to claim 1 , wherein said step a) comprises{'sub': g', 'νPP.1, νPP.2, νPP.3, 'b': 1', '2', '3, 'detecting a frequency (f) of the output signals () of the detectors (, , ), and'}{'sub': νPP.1, νPP.2, νPP.3', 'g', 'PP.1', 'PP.2', 'PP.3', 'PP.1', 'PP.2', 'PP.3', 'νPP.1, νPP.2, νPP.3, 'performing an I/Q method on the output signals (), based on the detected frequency (f), to calculate the amplitude (A, A, A) and phase (ϕ, ϕ, ϕ) of each output signal ().'}3. A system according to claim 1 , wherein said detectors are detectors responsive toan electric field or magnetic field of the pulsed hadron beam passing thereby.4. A system according to ...
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