| 摘要 |
The invention relates to a particle producing apparatus adapted to utilize a star mode of inertial electrostatic confinement of a glow discharge induced ion and neutral gas mixture of fusible low atomic number isotope species to generate protons or neutrons in a macro linear geometry, the apparatus comprising a hermetically sealed vessel of generally prismatic form having an inner surface and a central axis, within which vessel is disposed an elongate anode electrode structure surrounding an elongate cathode electrode structure having a perimeteral surface provided with apertures therein, the anode and cathode structures being substantially concentric along at least a part of their lengths and substantially coaxial with the vessel such that, during operation, the star mode beams of ions and high kinetic energy neutrals have a general direction of motion which is aligned substantially radially to a central axis of the vessel. The inner vacuum vessel wall incorporates a fluid conduit structure with an inner facing anode wall of a thickness sufficiently minimized to permit the energetic protons to traverse from the inner region of the vessel to the fluid target which incorporates isotopes that can be transmuted by proton collision reactions to become isotopes favored by practitioners of Positron Emission Tomography for example.
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