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Ekdahl, C.

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TUXC01 Status of DARHT 2nd Axis Accelerator at the Los Alamos National Laboratory 831
 
  • R. D. Scarpetti, J. Barraza, C. Ekdahl, E. Jacquez, S. Nath, K. Nielsen, G. J. Seitz
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • F. M. Bieniosek, B. G. Logan
    LBNL, Berkeley, California
  • G. J. Caporaso, Y.-J. Chen
    LLNL, Livermore, California
  
  This presentation will provide a status report on the 2kA, 17MeV, 2-microsecond Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrotest electron beam accelerator at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and will cover results from the cell refurbishment effort, commissioning experiments on beam transport and stability through the accelerator, and experiments exercising the beam chopper.  
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WEPMS020 Commissioning the DARHT-II Scaled Accelerator 2373
 
  • C. Ekdahl, E. O. Abeyta, P. Aragon, R. Archuleta, R. Bartsch, D. Dalmas, S. Eversole, R. J. Gallegos, J. F. Harrison, E. Jacquez, J. Johnson, B. T. McCuistian, N. Montoya, S. Nath, D. Oro, L. J. Rowton, M. Sanchez, R. D. Scarpetti, M. Schauer, G. J. Seitz
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • H. Bender, W. Broste, C. Carlson, D. Frayer, D. Johnson, A. Tipton, C.-Y. Tom
    NSTec, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • M. E. Schulze
    SAIC, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  
  The DARHT-II accelerator will produce a 2-kA, 17-MeV beam in a 1600-ns pulse when completed this summer. After exiting the accelerator, the long pulse will be sliced into four short pulses by a kicker and quadrupole septum and then transported for several meters to a tantalum target for conversion to bremsstrahlung for radiography. In order to provide early tests of the kicker, septum, transport, and multi-pulse converter target we assembled a short accelerator from the first available refurbished cells, which are now capable of operating of operating at over 200 kV. This scaled accelerator was operated at ~ 8 Mev and ~1 kA, which provides a beam with approximately the same nu/gamma as the final 17-MeV, 2-kA beam, and therefore the same beam dynamics in the downstream transport. In this presentation we will show the results of beam measurements made during the commissioning of this scaled accelerator.  
THOBAB02 Commissioning the DARHT-II Scaled Accelerator Downstream Transport 2627
 
  • M. E. Schulze
    SAIC, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • E. O. Abeyta, P. Aragon, R. Archuleta, J. Barraza, D. Dalmas, C. Ekdahl, K. Esquibel, S. Eversole, R. J. Gallegos, J. F. Harrison, E. Jacquez, J. Johnson, P. S. Marroquin, B. T. McCuistian, N. Montoya, S. Nath, L. J. Rowton, R. D. Scarpetti, M. Schauer
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • R. Anaya, G. J. Caporaso, F. W. Chambers, Y.-J. Chen, S. Falabella, G. Guethlein, J. F. McCarrick, 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, A. Tipton, C.-Y. Tom
    NSTec, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • T. C. Genoni, T. P. Hughes, C. H. Thoma
    Voss Scientific, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  
  The DARHT-II accelerator will produce a 2-kA, 17-MeV beam in a 1600-ns pulse when completed this summer. After exiting the accelerator, the long pulse is sliced into four short pulses by a kicker and quadrupole septum and then transported for several meters to a tantalum target for conversion to bremsstrahlung for radiography. We describe tests of the kicker, septum, transport, and multi-pulse converter target using a short accelerator assembled from the first available refurbished cells, which are now capable of operating of operating at over 200 kV. This scaled accelerator was operated at ~ 8 Mev and ~1 kA, which provides a beam with approximately the same nu/gamma as the final 17-MeV, 2-kA beam, and therefore the same beam dynamics in the downstream transport. The results of beam measurements made during the commissioning of this scaled accelerator downstream transport are described.  
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THPAN082 Implementation of Spread Mass Model of Ion Hose Instability in Lamda 3408
 
  • Y. Tang
    ATK-MR, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • C. Ekdahl
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  • T. C. Genoni, T. P. Hughes
    Voss Scientific, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • M. E. Schulze
    SAIC, Los Alamos, New Mexico
  
  Funding: Work supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The ion-hose instability sets limits on the allowable vacuum in the DARHT-2 linear induction accelerator (2kA, 18.6MeV, 2μs). Lamda is a transport code which advances the beam centroid and envelope in a linear induction accelerator from the injector to the final focus region. The code computes the effect of magnet misalignments, beam breakup instability, image-displacement instability, and gap voltage fluctuation on the beam. In this work, we have implemented the Spread Mass (SM) model of ion-hose instability into Lamda so that we can examine quickly the operating parameters for the experiments. Unlike the ordinary SM ion-hose code which assumes the uniform axial magnetic field, Lamda ion-hose calculation includes varying axial magnetic field, accelerating beam, gas pressure file, varying beam radius and elliptical beam. The benchmarks against a semi-analytical SM code and the particle-in-cell code Lsp, and a prediction of ion-hose instability for a 2.5MeV-1.4kA beam in the DARHT-2 are presented.