• C. Ekdahl, E.O. Abeyta, P. Aragon, R.D. Archuleta, G.V. Cook, D. Dalmas, K. Esquibel, R.J. Gallegos, R.W. Garnett, J.F. Harrison, E.B. Jacquez, J.B. Johnson, B.T. McCuistian, N. Montoya, S. Nath, K. Nielsen, D. Oro, L.J. Rowton, M. Sanchez, R.D. Scarpetti, M. Schauer, G.J. Seitz, H.V. Smith, R. Temple
  LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
• H. Bender, W. Broste, C. Carlson, D. Frayer, D. Johnson, C.-Y. Tom, C.P. Trainham, J.T. Williams
  NSTec, Los Alamos, New Mexico
• T.C. Genoni, T.P. Hughes, C.H. Thoma
  Voss Scientific, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• B.A. Prichard, M.E. Schulze
  SAIC, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Funding: Work supported by USDOE under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396
The DARHT-II linear induction accelerator (LIA) accelerates a 2 kA electron beam to more than 17 MeV. The beam pulse has a greater than 1.5-microsecond flattop region over which the electron kinetic energy is constant to within 1%. The beam dynamics are diagnosed with 21 beam-position monitors located throughout the injector, accelerator, and after the accelerator exit, where we also have beam imaging diagnostics. I will discuss the tuning of the injector and accelerator, and I will present data for the resulting beam dynamics. Beam motion at the accelerator exit is undesirable for its application as a bremsstrahlung source for multi-pulse radiography of explosively driven hydrodynamic experiments. I will discuss the tuning procedures and other methods we use to minimize beam motion, and to suppress the beam-breakup (BBU) and ion-hose instabilities*.

*"Long-pulse beam stability experiments on the DARHT-II linear induction accelerator", Carl Ekdahl, et al., IEEE Trans. Plasma. Sci. Vol. 34, 2006, pp. 460-466.

• R.D. Archuleta, L. Sanchez
  LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Funding: This work supported by the US National Nuclear Security Agency and the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396
The Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test Facility (DARHT) at Los Alamos National Laboratory is the world's most advanced weapons test facility. DARHT contains two linear accelerators for producing flash radiographs of hydrodynamic experiments. High-speed electronics and optical instrumentation are used for triggering the accelerators and collecting accelerator data. Efficient and effective diagnostics provide basic information needed to routinely tune the accelerators for peak radiographic performance, and to successfully monitor the accelerators performance. DARHT's server and network infrastructure is a key element in providing shot related data storage and retrieval for successfully executing radiographic experiments. This paper will outline the elaborate Data Acquisition, Archival, Analysis, and Instrument Control System (DAAAC), as well as the server and network infrastructure for both accelerators.

LA-UR-08-03265

• M.E. Schulze
  SAIC, Los Alamos, New Mexico
• E.O. Abeyta, R.D. Archuleta, J. Barraza, D. Dalmas, C. Ekdahl, W.L. Gregory, J.F. Harrison, E.B. Jacquez, J.B. Johnson, P.S. Marroquin, B.T. McCuistian, R.R. Mitchell, N. Montoya, S. Nath, K. Nielsen, R.M. Ortiz, L.J. Rowton, R.D. Scarpetti, M. Schauer, G.J. Seitz
  LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
• R. Anaya, G.J. Caporaso, F.W. Chambers, Y.-J. Chen, S. Falabella, G. Guethlein, B.A. Raymond, R.A. Richardson, J.A. Watson, J.T. Weir
  LLNL, Livermore, California
• H. Bender, W. Broste, C. Carlson, D. Frayer, D. Johnson, C.-Y. Tom
  NSTec, Los Alamos, New Mexico
• T.P. Hughes, C.H. Thoma
  Voss Scientific, Albuquerque, New Mexico

The DARHT-II accelerator produced a 2 kA, 17 MeV beam over a 1600 ns flattop. After exiting the accelerator, the long pulse is sliced into four short pulses by a kicker and quadrupole septum and then transported and focused on a target for conversion to bremsstrahlung for radiography. We describe the initial commissioning tests of the kicker, septum, transport, and multi-pulse converter target. The results of beam measurements made during the commissioning of the accelerator downstream transport are described. Beam optics simulations of the commissioning results are described.

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