PAC07 - List of Authors (Blackfield, D. T.)

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Blackfield, D. T.

Paper	Title	Page
TUYC02	High Gradient Induction Accelerator	857
	G. J. Caporaso, D. T. Blackfield, Y.-J. Chen, J. R. Harris, S. A. Hawkins, L. Holmes, S. D. Nelson, A. Paul, B. R. Poole, M. A. Rhodes, S. Sampayan, M. Sanders, S. Sullivan, L. Wang, J. A. Watson LLNL, Livermore, California M. L. Krogh University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, Missouri C. Nunnally University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, Missouri K. Selenes TPL, Albuquerque, NM
	Funding: This work was performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy by the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. W-7405-Eng-48. Progress in the development of compact induction accelerators employing advanced vacuum insulators and dielectrics will be described. These machines will have average accelerating gradients at least an order of magnitude higher than existing machines and can be used for a variety of applications including flash x-ray radiography and medical treatments. Research describing an extreme variant of this technology aimed at proton therapy for cancer will be described.
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TUPAS057	Injector Particle Simulation and Beam Transport in a Compact Linear Proton Accelerator	1781
	D. T. Blackfield, Y.-J. Chen, J. R. Harris, S. D. Nelson, A. Paul, B. R. Poole LLNL, Livermore, California
	Funding: This work was performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy by University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract W-7405-Eng-48. A compact Dielectric Wall Accelerator (DWA), with field gradient up to 100 MV/m, is being developed to accelerate proton bunches for use in cancer therapy treatment. The injector first generates a few nanosecond long and 40 pQ proton bunch, which is then compressed in the compression section at the end of the injector. Finally the bunch is accelerated in the high-gradient DWA accelerator to energy up to 70 - 250 MeV. The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code LSP is used to model several aspects of this design. First, we use LSP to determine the needed voltage waveform in the A-K gap that will produce a proton bunch with the requisite charge. We then model pulse compression and shaping in the section between the A-K gap and the DWA. We finally use LSP to model the beam transport through the DWA.
TUPAS060	Particle Simulations of a Linear Proton Dielectric Wall Accelerator	1790
	B. R. Poole, D. T. Blackfield, S. D. Nelson LLNL, Livermore, California
	Funding: This work was performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy, the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. W-7405-Eng-48. The dielectric wall accelerator (DWA) is a compact induction accelerator structure that incorporates the accelerating mechanism, pulse forming structure, and switch structure into an integrated module. The DWA consists of stacked stripline Blumlein assemblies, which can provide accelerating gradients in excess of 100 MeV/meter. Blumleins are switched sequentially according to a prescribed acceleration schedule to maintain synchronism with the proton bunch as it accelerates. A finite difference time domain code (FDTD) is used to determine the applied acceleration field to the proton bunch. Particle simulations are used to model the injector as well as the accelerator stack to determine the proton bunch energy distribution, both longitudinal and transverse dynamic focusing, and emittance associated with various DWA configurations.
WEPMS014	Vacuum Insulator Studies for the Dielectric Wall Accelerator	2358
	J. R. Harris, D. T. Blackfield, G. J. Caporaso, Y.-J. Chen, M. Sanders LLNL, Livermore, California M. L. Krogh University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, Missouri
	Funding: This work was performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy by the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. W-7405-Eng-48. As part of our ongoing development of the Dielectric Wall Accelerator, we are studying the performance of multilayer high-gradient insulators. These vacuum insulating structures are composed of thin, alternating layers of metal and dielectric, and have been shown to withstand higher gradients than conventional vacuum insulator materials. This paper describes these structures and presents some of our recent results.