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MOPA04 |
An Electron Beam Profile Monitor for the Race-track Microtron |
electron, controls, experiment, operation |
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- S.D. Dhole, V.N. Bhoraskar, B.J. Patil, N.S. Shinde
University of Pune, Pune, India
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In electron irradiation experiments on materials such as semiconductors, solar cells etc., an uniformity and the charge distribution in the electron beam is very important. Therefore, an electron beam current monitor and its electronic system have been designed and built to measure the distribution of a beam current either in the horizontal or vertical direction along with the beam dimensions. To obtain X-Y beam profile, a special type of Faraday Cup was designed which mainly consists of charge collecting electrodes made up of thin copper strips. Each strip having dimensions 0.5 mm wide, 4 mm thick and 20 mm long were fixed parallel to each other and separation between them was ~ 0.5 mm. This multi electrode Faraday was mounted at the extraction port of the Race Track Microtron, where 1 MeV electron beam allowed to fall on it. The beam characterization in the form of current and uniformity were measured. The current from each strip were measured using an electronic circuit developed based on the multiplexing principle. The uniformity of the beam can be measured with an accuracy of 10%. The minimum and maximum dimensions which can be measured are 3 mm and 15 mm respectively.
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TUPA06 |
Pulsed Electron Beam Current and Flux Monitor for the Race-track Microtron |
electron, induction, controls, experiment |
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- S.D. Dhole, S. Akhter, V.N. Bhoraskar, B.J. Patil, N.S. Shinde
University of Pune, Pune, India
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In electron irradiation experiments on the materials, a true current of the electron beam is to be known to calculate the electron fluence received by the sample. Therefore, a pulsed electron beam current and flux monitor alongwith electronic system for an electron accelerator called Race-Track Microtron has been designed and developed. The sensing device used was a ferrite core having suitable number of turns of copper wire wound around it, through which the electron beam was passed without loss in the intensity. With an appropriate developed electronic circuit, the instantaneous value of the induced voltage was measured which in turn provides value of the electron beam pulsed current. The total charge passed through the ferrite core per unit time was therefore recorded and an integrated value of the total charge in a given period could be derived. This system can be used to measure the electron flux in the range from 108 electron/cm2 to 1016 electron/cm2. Moreover, this system has been used successfully in a few electron irradiation experiments where the knowledge of the electron fluence received by the sample is required.
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