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Rowton, L. J.

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TUOBG03 Electron Beam Dynamics in the Long-pulse, High-current DARHT-II Linear Induction Accelerator 968
 
  • 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. 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
 
  We are now operating the full-scale DARHT-II linear induction accelerator (LIA) at its rated energy, accelerating 2-kA electron beams to more than 17 MeV. The injector produces a beam pulse with a full-width at half maximum (FWHM) greater than 2.5 microseconds, and a ~0.5 microsecond rise time. This long risetime is deliberately scraped off in a special beam-head cleanup zone (BCUZ) before entering the 68-cell main accelerator. The accelerated electron beam pulse has a flat-top region where the final electron kinetic energy varies by less than 1% for more than 1.5 microseconds. We will discuss the tuning of the injector, BCUZ, and accelerator; and we will present data for the resulting beam transport and dynamics. We will also present beam stability data, which we will relate to previous stability experiments at lower current and energy*.

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

 
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