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Gardner, D. M.

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THPP086 Diamond Stripper Foil Experience at SNS and PSR 3563
 
  • R. W. Shaw, Y.-J. Chen, R. L. Coleman, D. M. Gardner, C. Luck, A. G. McDermott, M. A. Plum, L. L. Wilson
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  • M. J. Borden, T. Spickermann
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • C. S. Feigerle
    University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
 
  The SNS is currently operating at about 15% of the 1.4 MW design power, and the diamond stripper foils developed at ORNL continue to perform well. Several corrugated, nanocrystalline diamond stripping foils have been tested at SNS. Beyond about 300 C of injected charge, significant distortion and darkening of the foils is observed. These foils are currently limited in freestanding area to about 17x25 mm due to stress-induced tears in larger foils; this limit positions the residual silicon wafer mounting handle close enough to the circulating beam that additional losses have been observed. The PSR experience with these diamond foils has been promising, with the interesting observation that both the foil current due to secondary emission of electrons and the thermionic foil current are reduced for diamond foils relative to LANL/KEK foils. For comparable thickness foils, losses due to the Ho yield also appear to be higher for diamond. A recent development in our foil preparation has been a change to nano-seeded nucleation from the earlier microcrystal slurry ultrasonic abrasion technique. This has led to a more reproducible and uniform foil morphology with smaller crystallites.