Proposed Methods for Producing Short Intense Monoenergetic Ion Pulses

Abstract

A method is outlined whereby suitable periodic deflection over the range of possible path lengths between foci of an appropriate focusing magnet is utilized to convert a continuous monoenergetic ion beam at one focus into very short duration high intensity monoenergetic ion pulses at the other focus. Time-of-flight analysis of reaction particle pulses resulting from the interaction of the ion pulses with stationary target nuclei is discussed, and the application of this method to the elastic and inelastic scattering of neutrons is considered briefly.