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MOPKF050 Current Heart-like Wiggler wiggler, undulator, radiation, free-electron-laser 423
 
  • V.I.R. Niculescu, G.R. Anda, F. Scarlat
    INFLPR, Bucharest - Magurele
  • V. Babin
    INOE, Bucharest
  • C. Stancu, A. Tudorache
    Bucharest University, Faculty of Physics, Bucharest-Magurele
  A new wiggler structure for free electron lasers is presented. Current hart-like wiggler produced magnetic fields which were spatially periodic. The current wiggler structure was in the shape of stacks of modified circle wires. The current had alternating directions. The magnetic field components for each wire present a C2 symmetry (for a model with 3 branches). The wiggler transverse cross - section in arbitrary units was given by the following expressions: x = R(d+sin(3j))cos(j) , y = R(d+sin(3j))sin(j) , z = constant, where d and R are the parameters. In cylindrical coordinates the Biot - Savart law was evaluated numerically. The magnetic field aspect was mainly transversal and also easily adjusted with the current . The versatility of this structure permits new geometrical forms and developments in the wiggler and wiggler design .  
 
MOPLT061 Design Study for Advanced Acceleration Experiments and Monochromatic X-ray Production @ SPARC laser, electron, photon, acceleration 695
 
  • L. Serafini, S. Cialdi, R. Pozzoli, M. Romé
    INFN-Milano, Milano
  • D. Alesini, S. Bertolucci, M.E. Biagini, C. Biscari, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, M. Castellano, A. Clozza, G. Di Pirro, A. Drago, A. Esposito, M. Ferrario, V. Fusco, A. Gallo, A. Ghigo, S. Guiducci, M. Incurvati, C. Ligi, F. Marcellini, M.  Migliorati, C. Milardi, L. Palumbo, L. Pellegrino, M.A. Preger, P. Raimondi, R. Ricci, C. Sanelli, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, B. Spataro, A. Stecchi, A. Stella, F. Tazzioli, C. Vaccarezza, M. Vescovi, C. Vicario, M. Zobov
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
  • F. Alessandria, A. Bacci, F. Broggi, C. De Martinis, D. Giove, M. Mauri
    INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI)
  • R. Bonifacio, I. Boscolo, C. Maroli, V. Petrillo, N. Piovella
    Universita' degli Studi di Milano, MILANO
  • A. Mostacci
    Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
  We present a design study for an upgrade of the SPARC photo-injector system, whose main aim is the construction of an advanced beam test facility for conducting experiments on high gradient plasma acceleration and for the generation of monochromatic X-ray beams to be used in advanced medical applications and condensed matter physics studies. Main components of the proposed plan of upgrade are: two additional beam lines with interaction regions for synchronized high brightness electron and high intensity photon beams and the upgrade of the SPARC Ti:Sa laser system to reach a multi-TW power level (in excess of 1 J in pulse energy). Results of numerical simulations modeling the interaction of the SPARC electron beam and the counter-propagating laser beam are presented with detailed discussion of the monochromatic X-ray beam spectra generated by Compton backscattering: X-ray energies are tunable in the range 20 to 500 keV, with pulse duration from sub-ps to 30 ps. Preliminary simulations of plasma acceleration of the SPARC electron beam, generated in ultra-short bunches, via the LWF mechanism and with external injection are also shown: experiments of self-injection are also foreseen and illustrated.  
 
MOPLT072 Effects of Positrons on Relativistic Solitons in Laser-Plasma Interactions ion, positron, electron, laser 719
 
  • J.B.  Kim, I.S. Ko
    POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk
  • H. Suk
    KERI, Changwon
  An extended 1D kinetic model of relativistic solitons by high power lasers in three species plasmas is suggested and it is applied to analysis on the effects of electron-positron pairs on the solitons. Stability condition of the solitons is derived. The range of parameters for the stable solitons are specified in the frequency-temperature plane. With the creation of electron-positron pairs, relativistic solitons appear stable in wider range of frequencies and temperatures. The regions are expanded toward higher values in overall ranges in the frequency-temperature plane. The stability conditions are affected by the density of positrons. The variation of shapes, peak E-field, and width of the solitons by varying the positron density are analyzed. We discuss the implications of the variation in the soliton on the ion accelerations by it.  
 
MOPLT073 Picosecond High Voltage Switching for Pulsed DC Acceleration laser, acceleration, electron, pulsed-power 722
 
  • J. Hendriks, G.J.H. Brussaard
    TUE, Eindhoven
  Laser wakefield acceleration promises the production of high energy electrons from table-top accelerators. External injection of a (low energy) electron bunch into a laser wakefield requires acceleration gradients of the order GV/m. In principle DC acceleration can achieve GV/m acceleration gradients. If high voltage pulses of the order MV can be switched with picosecond precision, the performance of such an accelerator would be greatly enhanced and even multistage DC acceleration would become feasible. Presently risetime and jitter of high voltage pulses in high voltage laser triggered spark gaps are limited to the nanosecond regime by the initial stochastic breakdown process in the gap. A way to overcome this limitation is to create a line focus between the electrodes with an intensity above 1018 W/m2 using a high power femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser. Because of the instantaneous ionization and high degree of ionization in the plasma channel, picosecond switching precision can be achieved and jitter is reduced significantly. A spark gap test setup with 3 mm interelectrode distance has been build and the first measurements have been done. Femtosecond diagnostics for characterization of the laser induced plasma and electro-optic diagnostics for the high voltage pulse have been developed.  
 
MOPLT088 Experimental Plasma Wake-field Acceleration Project at the VEPP-5 Injection Complex acceleration, electron, injection, positron 740
 
  • A.V. Petrenko, A. Burdakov, A.M. Kudryavtsev, P.V. Logatchev, K.V. Lotov, A.N. Skrinsky
    BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
  The project of an experimental facility based on the VEPP-5 injection complex is described. Due to a good quality of electron or positron beams and special beam preparation system, the facility opens several possibilities for studies of the plasma wakefield acceleration: high peak beam currents, arbitrary beam profiles, long term beam-plasma interaction (up to the full driver depletion), and precise beam diagnostics. Various wakefield regimes can be experimentally demonstrated and studied: the efficient blow-out regime with a low energy spread and high acceleration rate (up to several GeV per meter); multibunch regime; long bunch instabilities; beam self-organization in plasma; plasma lens. If successfully realized, this experiment becomes a solid argument for feasibility of a high-energy collider based upon the plasma wakefield acceleration.  
 
MOPLT101 Performances of the Beam Generated by Metal-Dielectric Cathodes in RF Electron Guns cathode, gun, electron, acceleration 767
 
  • I.V. Khodak, I.V. Khodak, V.A. Kushnir
    NSC/KIPT, Kharkov
  The paper describes results of the experimental research of the metal-dielectric cathode operation in RF electron gun. Application of these cathodes permits RF guns to generate intense beams with nanosecond current pulse duration. Electron beam is extracted from plasma sheath developed during the surface vacuum flashover dielectric. Simulated and experimental parameters of the beam obtained at the single-cavity RF gun output are summarized in the paper. The beam formation and its interaction with microwave field of high strength are analyzed qualitatively. Results are compared with experimental results obtained before in the 1.5-cavity RF electron gun. First experimental results on electron beam generation by the RF gun with a ferroelectric cathode are discussed in the paper.  
 
MOPLT102 To the Problem of Wake-field Excitation for Advanced Accelerator Concept electron, radiation, acceleration, laser 770
 
  • I.N. Onishchenko, V. Kiselev, A. Linnik, N. Onishchenko, G. Sotnikov
    NSC/KIPT, Kharkov
  • V. Ushkov
    RRC Kurchatov Institute, Moscow
  The advanced accelerator concept to use the wake-fields exited in dielectric by a sequence of electron bunches for high-gradient particle acceleration has been proposed and investigated in [*-***]. Two essential merits are being exploited. First of them [**] is the excitation by a regular sequence of electron bunches that allows superposing coherently the wake-fields excited by each bunch. The second one [***] concludes to multi-mode operation that leads to peaking of the resulting HF-field that is represented by a sequence of spikes of alternative signs with essentially higher amplitude comparatively to only principle mode excitation. The recent works performed in NSC/KIPT on theoretical studies, simulation, and experimental investigations of the wake-fields excitation by a train of 2 MeV electron bunches in a dielectric waveguide are presented. Transition and Cerenkov radiation excited by short bunches in a limited dielectric medium was theoretically investigated. The measurements of wake-fields output power and the electron energy spectrum were experimentally performed.

* W.Gai, P.Schoessow, B.Cole et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2756 (1988) ** I.N.Onishchenko, V.A.Kiselev, G.V.Sotnikov et al. Proc. 1995 Particle Accelerator Conf., p. 782-3*** T.B.Zhang, J.L.Hirshfield, T.C.Marshall et al Proc. 1997 Particle Accelerator Conf., V.42, No.3, p.1341

 
 
TUXCH02 FAIR - An International Accelerator Facility for Research with Ions and Antiprotons ion, antiproton, heavy-ion, synchrotron 50
 
  • W.F. Henning
    GSI, Darmstadt
  This presentation describes the conceptual design for the accelerator facility and the physics research program, and discusses the status and the new challenges in accelerator physics and technology.  
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TUZACH02 Ultra-high Gradient Compact Accelerator Developments laser, electron, acceleration, injection 74
 
  • G.J.H. Brussaard, M.J. Van der Wiel
    TUE, Eindhoven
  Continued development of relatively compact, although not quite 'table-top', lasers with peak powers in the range up to 100 TW has enabled laser-plasma-based acceleration experiments with amazing gradients of up to 1 TV/m. In order to usefully apply such gradients to 'controlled' acceleration, various hurdles need to be overcome. The main one is that of well-synchronized injection into a sub-mm to micron wavelength plasma wave. The talk will describe the various physics regimes of laser wakefield acceleration, and the two classes of experiments being pursued. One is that of atmospheric-density plasmas, non-linear wakefields with extreme gradients (hundreds of GV/m)and 'internal injection' of few-femtosecond electron bunches. A second class involves modest-density plasmas,wakefields of order 1 GV/m and external injection of (sub)-ps bunches. The state-of-the-art of these experiments will be covered, including the progress on plasma waveguiding of TW pulses over many diffraction lengths. The talk will also provide an outlook for the coming few years. This part includes proposed schemes for improvements in the area of injection, such as 'all-optical' injection and injection based on GV/m 'pulsed-DC' photoguns.  
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TUYLH01 Proton and Ion Sources for High Intensity Accelerators ion, cathode, extraction, emittance 103
 
  • R. Scrivens
    CERN, Geneva
  Future high intensity ion accelerators, including SNS, European Spallation Source, SPL etc, will require high current and high duty factor sources for protons, negative hydrogen and heavier ions. In order to achieve these goals, a comparison of the Electron Cyclotron Resonance, radio-frequency and Penning ion sources, among others, will be made. For each of these source types, the present operational sources will be compared to the state-of-the-art research devices with special attention given to reliability and availability. Finally, the future research and development aims will be discussed.  
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TUPKF025 Superconducting Niobium Film for RF Applications cathode, vacuum, electron, laser 1021
 
  • A. Cianchi, L. Catani, A. Cianchi, S. Tazzari
    INFN-Roma II, Roma
  • Y.H. Akhmadeev
    Institute of High Current Electronics, Tomsk
  • A. Andreone, G. Cifariello, E. Di Gennaro, G. Lamura
    Naples University Federico II, Napoli
  • J.L. Langner
    The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Centre Swierk, Swierk/Otwock
  • R.R. Russo
    Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Roma
  Thin niobium film coated copper RF cavities are an interesting possible alternative to bulk-Nb cavities since copper is much cheaper than niobium, it has higher thermal conductivity and a better mechanical stability. Unfortunately, the observed degradation of the quality factor with increased cavity voltage of sputtered accelerating cavities restricts their usage in future large linear accelerators needing gradients higher than 15MV/m. We are developing an alternate deposition technology, based on a cathodic arc system working in UHV conditions. Its main advantages compared to standard sputtering are the ionized state of the evaporated material, the absence of gases to sustain the discharge, the much higher energy of atoms reaching the substrate surface and the possibility of higher deposition rates. To ignite the arc we use a Nd-YAG pulsed laser focused on the cathode surface that provides a reliable and ultraclean trigger. Recent results on the characterization of niobium film samples produced under different conditions are presented showing that the technique can produce bulk-like films suitable for RF superconducting applications.  
 
TUPKF050 Triggers for RF Breakdown electron 1063
 
  • J. Norem, Z. Insepov
    ANL, Argonne, Illinois
  We outline a model of breakdown in rf cavities. Breakdown can be triggered by two mechanisms, one is fracture of the surface due to the tensile stress produced by the electric field, the second is Ohmic heating at grain boundaries and defects at very high current densities. We show how this model follows from measurements of local electric fields using electron field emission, and show how the model applies to the operating conditions of a variety of rf structures. This model may have some relevance to SCRF and DC structures.  
 
TUPKF066 34 Ghz, 45 MW Pulsed Magnicon: First Results gun, electron, cathode, linear-collider 1096
 
  • O.A. Nezhevenko, V.P. Yakovlev
    Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut
  • J.L. Hirshfield, M.A. LaPointe
    Yale University, Physics Department, New Haven, CT
  A high efficiency, high power magnicon at 34.272 GHz has been designed and built as a microwave source to develop RF technology for a future multi-TeV electron-positron linear collider. To develop this technology, this new RF source is being perfected for necessary tests of accelerating structures, RF pulse compressors, RF components, and to determine limits of breakdown and metal fatigue. After preliminary RF conditioning of only about 200000 pulses, the magnicon produced an output power of 10.5 MW in 0.25 microsecond pulses, with a gain of 54 dB. Slotted line measurements confirmed that the output was monochromatic to within a margin of at least 30 dB.  
 
TUPKF074 Niobium Thin Film Cavity Deposition by ECR Plasma vacuum, ion, electron, superconductivity 1108
 
  • A-M. Valente, H.L. Phillips, H. Wang, A. Wu, G. Wu
    Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
  Nb/Cu technology for superconducting cavities has proven to be over the years a viable alternative to bulk niobium. Energetic vacuum deposition is a very unique alternative method to grow niobium thin film on copper. Single crystal growth of niobium on sapphire substrate has been achieved as well as good surface morphology of niobium on small copper samples. The design of a cavity deposition system is in development. This paper presents the exploratory studies of the influence of the deposition energy on the Nb thin film properties. Several possible venues to achieve Nb/Cu cavity deposition with this technique are also discussed along with the design of the cavity deposition setup under development.  
 
TUPLT021 Heavy Ion Beam Transport in Plasma Channels ion, laser, heavy-ion, beam-transport 1183
 
  • S. Neff, D.H. Hoffmann, R. Knobloch
    TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt
  • C. Niemann, D. Penache, A. Tauschwitz
    GSI, Darmstadt
  • S. Yu
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  The transport of heavy ion beams in high current discharge channels is a promising option for the final beam transport in a heavy ion fusion reactor. The channel provides space-charge neutralization and an azimuthal magnetic field of several tesla, thereby allowing for transporting high current ion beams. The possibility to heat the hohlraum target with only two ion beams simplifies the reactor design significantly. Therefore channel transport is studied as part of the US fusion reactor study as an alternative to neutralized ballistic focusing. We have created 1 m long discharge channels and studied the channel development and stability. In addition, we have carried out proof-of-principle transport experiments using the UNILAC facility at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung. The experiments demonstrate the feasibility of plasma channel transport. Our transport experiments with low current beams are supplemented by simulations for high current beams. These simulations show the possibility of transporting particle currents of up to 60 kA.  
 
TUPLT026 High Current Ion Beams at Frankfurt University ion, electron, power-supply, space-charge 1198
 
  • M. Droba, O. Meusel, U. Ratzinger, K. Volk
    IAP, Frankfurt-am-Main
  A new building for the physics faculty at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt is under construction including an experimental hall. The Institute of Applied Physics IAP has started development of a high current ion beam facility consisting of a high voltage terminal(150 kV,I_beam < 300 mA,H-,p,Bi+), a 10 MV linear rf accelerator and a high current storage ring for 150 keV beams. The 150 kV terminal equipment is already ordered while the subsequent units are in the design stage. The storage ring will use a stellarator-like magnetic configuration to allow for a high degree of space charge compensation by electrons. The facility will allow high current beam investigations as well as experiments in fields of plasma, nuclear and atomic physics.  
 
TUPLT065 Beams from RF Ovens and ECR Ion Sources ion, ion-source, injection, electron 1303
 
  • M. Cavenago
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro, Padova
  • T. Kulevoy, S. Petrenko
    ITEP, Moscow
  Beam of silver, copper and recently platinum were produced with the radiofrequency oven technique. The ECRIS (Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source) can be conveniently considered as a charge breeder for any injection device; this approach allows to compare the injection of metals from ovens with other techniques discussed in the literature, like the injection from mevva (Metal Vapor Vacuum Arc) sources or the injection of single charged RIB (radioactive ion beams) or the simple injection of heavy gas. Extensive experiments extracting beams of copper (charge up 13+) or silver (charge up to 19+) or xenon (charge up 20+) with the same ECRIS condition are described, and advantage of rf oven over gas injection are discussed; in particular the oven crucible can be easily voltage biased up to -400 V, to modify ECRIS plasma shape. Heating the tantalum crucibles over 2300 K (average temperature) requires careful axial alignment to avoid the formation of hot spots; preliminary evidence of this effect and its numerical modeling are also described.  
 
TUPLT139 Extending the Duty Cycle of the ISIS H Minus Ion Source, Thermal Considerations cathode, ion, ion-source, simulation 1452
 
  • D.C. Faircloth, J.W.G. Thomason
    CCLRC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
  The ISIS H minus ion source is currently being developed on the Ion Source Development Rig (ISDR) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in order to meet the requirements for the next generation of high power proton drivers. One key development goal is to increase the pulse width and duty cycle, but this has a significant effect on ion source temperatures if no other changes are made. A Finite Element Analysis (FEA) model has been produced to understand the steady state and dynamic thermal behavior of the source, and to investigate the design changes necessary to offset the extra heating.  
 
TUPLT160 Development of a 25-mA, 12% Duty Factor (df) H- Source for LANSCE emittance, simulation, electron, ion 1500
 
  • G. Rouleau, A. Arvin, E. Chacon-Golcher, E. Geros, G. Jacobson, J. Meyer, P. Naffziger, S. Schaller, J.D. Sherman, J. Stelzer, J. Zaugg
    LANL/LANSCE, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  Present operations at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) accelerator use a surface conversion source to provide 80-keV, 16 to 18-mA H- beams with typical rms normalized emittance of 0.13 (pmm-mrad). Operational flexibility of the 800-MeV linac and proton storage ring will be increased by a higher current H- source. The present goal is to achieve a 25-mA H- surface converter source with modest (10-20%) emittance increase without sacrificing the present LANSCE production source 12% df and 28 day lifetime. The LANSCE 80-kV ion source test stand (ISTS) has been brought into reliable 24-hour per day operation with computer control and modern electronics. A fourth production source has been fabricated, and is now operating on the ISTS. H- currents up to 25mA have been observed with 0.15 to 0.18(pmm-mrad) rms normalized emittances. An experimental study of surface converter geometries and electron filters at the emitter electrode are planned to optimize source current and emittance.  
 
TUPLT175 Operation of the SNS Ion Source at High Duty-Factor ion, ion-source, diagnostics, emittance 1538
 
  • R.F. Welton, T.A. Justice, S.N. Murray, M.P. Stockli
    ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  • R. Keller
    LBNL/AFR, Berkeley, California
  The ion source for the Spallation Neutron Source* (SNS) is a radio frequency, multi-cusp, source designed to deliver ~ 45 mA of H- with a normalized rms emittance of less than 0.2 pi mm mrad to the SNS accelerator. Once the SNS is fully operational a beam current duty factor of 6% (1 ms pulse length, repetition rate of 60 Hz) will be required from the ion source. To date, the source has been utilized in the early commissioning of the SNS accelerator and has already demonstrated stable, satisfactory operation at beam currents of ~30 mA with duty factors of ~0.1% for operational periods of several weeks. This work summarizes the results of a series of lifetime tests performed at a dedicated ion source test facility where the source was pushed closer to the operational goal of 6% duty factor.  
 
WEILH01 Methods for Successful Technology Transfer in Physics radiation, electron, instrumentation, collider 198
 
  • K.N. Hill
    Qi3, Cambridge
  The development of accelerators for scientific research generates significant technologies of interest to industry. As physicists and technologists we also require strong partnerships with industry in order that it may supply us with the instrumentation and systems we require for new apparatus. We will discuss the methods developed for the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) and applied on behalf of CERN to encourage successful knowledge transfer into industry. Case studies will illustrate the hurdles that must be surmounted and effective methods to build successful partnerships, licensing opportunities and spinout companies. Factors considered will include assessment of the commercial potential of technologies, personal motivations for academic/industrial collaboration, sources of funding, and effects on the academic groups involved in knowledge transfer activity.  
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WEPLT100 Planar Electron Sources and the Electron Trap ELTRAP electron, cathode, laser, injection 2083
 
  • M. Cavenago
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro, Padova
  • G. Bettega, F. Cavaliere, A. Illiberi, R. Pozzoli, M. Romé, L. Serafini
    INFN-Milano, Milano
  Filamentation and other space charge effects (both transverse and longitudinal) of intense electron beams, found for example in rf photoinjectors (beam energy 1 MeV, current 100 A), are easily studied in small voltage traps and drift channels (0.01-10 kV), keeping the same perveance order. A suitable Malmberg-Penning trap, named ELTRAP, installed and operated at the University of Milan, is briefly described; trap length ranges from 10 cm to 1 m; an uniform magnetic field confines electron radially. Several experimental regimes were investigated with the internal CW planar electron source: plasma, beam-plasma, beam, depending on the injection/extraction method chosen. Evolution of electron vortices and virtual cathode formation is documented; analogy with meteorologic and astrophysical plasma is discussed. Upgrading with an external laser pulsed electron source is in course. Larger planar sources are also under construction. (Main classification 4: Beam Dynamics and Electro-magnetic Fields; D03 High Intensity, Incoherent Instabilities, Space Charge, Halos, Cooling; Other classification 8: Low and Intermediate Energy Accelerators and Sources; T12 Beam Injection/Extraction and Transport; T02 Lepton sources)  
 
WEPLT118 Performance of the TU/e 2.6 Cell Rf-photogun in the 'Pancake' Regime simulation, space-charge, focusing, acceleration 2128
 
  • S.B. van der Geer, G.J.H. Brussaard, O.J. Luiten, M.J. Van der Wiel
    TUE, Eindhoven
  • G. Pöplau
    Rostock University, Faculty of Engineering, Rostock
  • M.J. de Loos
    PP, Soest
  The 2.6 cell rf-photogun currently in operation at Eindhoven University of Technology has been designed as a booster for a 2 MeV semi-DC accelerator with a field of 1 GV/m. In this paper we present GPT simulation results of the TU/e gun, operated without its pre-accelerator, in the low-charge short-pulse regime. The main part of the paper describes detailed calculations of bunch lengthening due to path-length differences and space-charge effects, making use of high-precision field-maps and the newly developed 3D mesh-based space-charge model of GPT. It is shown that with the present set-up bunches can be produced that are well suited for injection into a planned experiment for controlled acceleration in a plasma-wakefield accelerator.  
 
WEPLT171 Rotating Electromagnetic Field Trap for High Temperature Plasma and Charge Confinement electron, laser, quadrupole, electromagnetic-fields 2230
 
  • V.V. Danilov
    ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  This paper demonstrates that there exists a special combination of oscillating electromagnetic fields capable of trapping ultra high charge densities. Trapped particles undergo stable motion when their frequencies of oscillation are much higher than that of the ocillating field. Contrary to conventional electromagnetic traps, the motion in this dynamic trap is stable for arbitrarily high electromagnetic field amplitudes. This, in turn, leads to the possibility of using enormous electric and magnetic fields from RF or laser sources to confine dense ultrahigh temperature plasmas and particle beams.  
 
THPKF043 Accelerators Use for Irradiation of Fresh Medicinal Herbs electron, radiation 2371
 
  • R.D. Minea, M.M. Brasoveanu, M.R. Nemtanu, C. Oproiu
    INFLPR, Bucharest - Magurele
  • E. Mazilu, N. Radulescu
    Hofigal S.A., Bucharest - Magurele
  The paper presents the results regarding the electron beam irradiation of fresh Salvia Officinalis and Calendula Officinalis. Irradiation is already a well-known decontamination method, but it received less attention for medicinal plants, especially on fresh herbs. Microbial load behavior, antioxidant activity, and enzymatic inhibition activity were measured for doses between 1 and 50 kGy. Up to 5 kGy, herbs are decontaminated without any important alteration in the active principles, but they loose their fresh aspect easier than non-irradiated ones. The last effect could be useful for the extracting process in which herbs are stressed anyway.  
 
THPKF060 Singapore Synchrotron Light Source– Helios 2 and Beyond electron, synchrotron, linac, radiation 2400
 
  • H.O. Moser, B.D.F. Casse, E.P. Chew, M. Cholewa, C. Diao, S.X.D. Ding, M. Hua, J.R. Kong, Z. Li, S.bin. Mahmood, M.L. Ng, B.T. Saw, S.V.S. Vidyaraj, O. Wilhelmi, J.H.W. Wong, P. Yang, X.J. Yu
    SSLS, Singapore
  SSLS is operating a superconducting 700 MeV electron storage ring to produce synchrotron radiation over a useful spectral range from 10 keV to the far infrared for micro/nanofabrication, phase contrast imaging, surface and nano science with soft X-rays, and hard X-ray diffraction and absorption spectroscopy. An Infrared spectro/microscopy beamline is under construction. Latest results from all beamlines will be presented. SSLS is also working on a conceptual study of a Linac Undulator Light Installation (LIULI) that includes a superconducting miniundulator. Pursuing earlier work* a prototype built by ACCEL is being tested at SSLS and will later serve for FEL studies in cooperation with SSRF at Shanghai.

* A. Geisler, A. Hobl, D. Krischel, H.O. Moser, R. Rossmanith, M. Schillo, First Field Measurements and Performance Tests of a Superconductive Undulator for Light Sources with a Period Length of 14 mm, ASC Conference, Houston, TX, August 2002

 
 
THPLT029 Parallel Particle in Cell Computations with GdfidL electromagnetic-fields, simulation, vacuum, acceleration 2538
 
  • W. Bruns
    WBFB, Berlin
  The electromagnetic field solver GdfidL has been extended to compute with free moving charges. For computing in parallel, GdfidL partitions the computational volume in many small subvolumes. Each processor computes the electromagnetic field in its part of the whole volume. In addition to the normal field update equations, the movement of the particles must be computed from the Lorentz-force, and the convection current due to the moving charges must be computed and be used to change the electric field near the particle. For each particle, these computations are performed by the processor which is responsible for the volume where the particle is in. Details of the parallel implementation of the used algorithm, Particle in Cell, are given.  
 
THPLT093 Particle-in-cell Numerical Simulations of Particle Dynamics in Beams and ECR Sources ion, electron, simulation, ion-source 2712
 
  • G. Shirkov, V. Alexandrov, V. Shevtsov
    JINR/PPL, Dubna, Moscow Region
  A summary of recent development of physical and mathematical basements and the first version of computer code library based on the particle-in-cell method are presented. The code library is aimed for the three-dimensional (3D) simulation of the ECR plasma and ion production in the ECR ion source. The particle-in-cell (finite particle) method is one of the most powerful methods for the numerical simulation of multicomponent ECR plasma and electron-ion beams. This method allows studying the detailed characteristics of plasma, taking into account the distribution functions of particles (spatial, velocity and energy distributions), real self and external fields, particle-particle interactions and many other effects. This technique promises to provide very precise numerical simulations and optimizations of ECR ion sources. The first results of simulations of ECR source plasma are presented. It has been shown that a complete and adequate description of ECR plasma requires the full-scale 3D model and computer codes. This is out of frames of existed project and could be an aim of some addition investigations.  
 
FRYBCH01 Clean Energy and the Fast Track to Fusion Power target, electron, neutral-beams, ion 295
 
  • C. Llewellyn Smith
    UKAEA Culham, Culham, Abingdon, Oxon
  The theoretical attractions of fusion are clear: used as fuel in a fusion power plant, the lithium in one laptop battery together with 40 litres of water would produce 200,000 kW hours of electricity in an environmentally benign manner. The Joint European Torus (JET), which has produced 16MW, has shown that fusion can work in practice. ITER (the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor) is now essential to test integration of the components at the heart of a fusion reactor, and confirm that a burning plasma, in a fusion device scaled up in all dimensions by a factor of two from JET, to power plant size, has the expected behaviour. ITER should confirm that a fusion power plant can be built. The challenge will then be to build a power plant that would be sufficiently reliable and robust to be economically viable. This will require intensive research and development on the materials needed to construct the plasma vessel and surrounding blanket. These materials will have to be tested under reactor conditions at a dedicated facility called IFMIF (International Fusion Materials Facility). Construction of IFMIF in parallel with ITER would put fusion firmly on the 'fast track' (strongly advocated by the British Government) to the construction of a commercial fusion power plant, which could in principle be in operation within 30 years. I shall describe how a fusion power plant would work, the advantages and disadvantages of fusion, and the challenges that lie ahead.  
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