Author: Sinclair, C.K.
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TUP017 Conceptual Design for the ARIEL 300 keV Electron Gun 847
 
  • C.D. Beard, F. Ames, S. Austen, R.A. Baartman, Y.-C. Chao, K. Fong, C. Gong, N. Khan, S.R. Koscielniak, A. Laxdal, R.E. Laxdal, C.D.P. Levy, D. Louie, J. Lu, L. Merminga, A.K. Mitra, D. Rowbotham, P. Vincent, D. Yosifov
    TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
  • C.K. Sinclair
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  The Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory (ARIEL) at TRIUMF is a facility that will augment existing programs at ISAC. ARIEL was funded in July 2010. Products from the complementary methods of proton-driven and bremsstrahlung-driven fission will be available for nuclear and materials science. Equipment for the photofission driver is the subject of this paper: a high-intensity electron beam provided by a high-voltage electron source (or e-gun) will be accelerated in a superconducting linear accelerator, and guided to a γ-ray convertor and actinide target assembly. The electron source is a 10 mA 300 keV thermionic gun, with a control grid for modulation of the beam. This paper describes the conceptual design of the gun, and highlights some of the progress made in the engineering design. First beam from the gun is anticipated in early 2012.