scholarly journals High current ion beam RF acceleration and perspectives for an inertial fusion driver

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. RATZINGER ◽  
H. LIEBERMANN ◽  
O. MEUSEL ◽  
H. PODLECH ◽  
R. TIEDE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ion Beam ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Beam Current ◽  
Charge Ratio ◽  
Inertial Fusion ◽  
High Current ◽  
Applied Physics ◽  
Current Limit ◽  
The Status ◽  
Under Construction

The actual situation with respect to the use of an RF linac driver for heavy ion inertial fusion (HIF) is discussed. At present, there is no high current heavy ion linac under construction. However, in the course of linac projects for e−, p, d, or highly charged ions several developments were made, which may have some impact on the design of a HIF driver. Medium- and low-β superconducting structures suited for pulsed high current beam operation are actually designed and investigated at several laboratories. A superconducting 40 MeV, 125 mA cw linac for deuteron acceleration is designed for the Inertial Fusion Material Irradiation Facility (IFMIF). The Institute for Applied Physics (IAP) is developing a superconducting 350-MHz, 19-cell prototype CH-cavity for β = 0.1. The prototype cavity will be ready for tests in 2004. A superconducting main HIF driver linac would considerably reduce the power losses. Moreover, it would allow for an efficient linac operation at a higher duty factor.The 1.4-AMeV room-temperature High Current Injector HSI at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) has been in routine operation for more than 2 years now. With a mass-to-charge ratio of up to 65, a current limit of 15 mA for U4+, and an energy range from 2.2 AkeV up to 1.4 AMeV, this linac is suited to gain useful experience on the way toward the design of a HIF RF driver. The status and technical improvements of that A/q ≤ 65, 91-MV linac are reported. Beam dynamics calculations for Bi1+-beams show that powerful focusing elements at the linac front end are the bottleneck with respect to a further increase in beam current. Besides superconducting and pulsed wire quadrupoles, the potential of the Gabor-plasma lenses is investigated.

scholarly journals The high current experiment: First results

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.A. SEIDL ◽  
D. BACA ◽  
F.M. BIENIOSEK ◽  
A. FALTENS ◽  
S.M. LUND ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Space Charge ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Beam Steering ◽  
Fusion Energy ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Current ◽  
Current Experiment ◽  
First Results ◽  
High Space

The High Current Experiment (HCX) is being assembled at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of the U.S. program to explore heavy ion beam transport at a scale representative of the low-energy end of an induction linac driver for fusion energy production. The primary mission of this experiment is to investigate aperture fill factors acceptable for the transport of space-charge dominated heavy ion beams at high space-charge intensity (line-charge density ∼ 0.2 μC/m) over long pulse durations (>4 μs). This machine will test transport issues at a driver-relevant scale resulting from nonlinear space-charge effects and collective modes, beam centroid alignment and beam steering, matching, image charges, halo, lost-particle induced electron effects, and longitudinal bunch control. We present the first experimental results carried out with the coasting K+ ion beam transported through the first 10 electrostatic transport quadrupoles and associated diagnostics. Later phases of the experiment will include more electrostatic lattice periods to allow more sensitive tests of emittance growth, and also magnetic quadrupoles to explore similar issues in magnetic channels with a full driver scale beam.

scholarly journals Driver Technology for Inertial Fusion Research Introduction. Heavy Ion Beam Drivers.

1999 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
Masao OGAWA ◽  
Kazuhiko HORIOKA ◽  
Toshiyuki HATTORI
Keyword(s):  
Ion Beam ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Inertial Fusion ◽  
Fusion Research ◽  
Heavy Ion Beam

scholarly journals Irradiation of materials with short, intense ion pulses at NDCX-II

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.A. Seidl ◽  
J.J. Barnard ◽  
E. Feinberg ◽  
A. Friedman ◽  
E.P. Gilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Space Charge ◽  
Focal Spot ◽  
Short Pulse ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Quantitative Comparison ◽  
Inertial Fusion ◽  
Ion Energy ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Maximum Duration

AbstractWe present an overview of the performance of the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment-II (NDCX-II) accelerator at Berkeley Lab, and report on recent target experiments on beam-driven melting and transmission ion energy loss measurements with nanosecond and millimeter-scale ion beam pulses and thin tin foils. Bunches with around 1011 ions, 1 mm radius, and 2–30 ns full width at half maximum duration have been created with corresponding fluences in the range of 0.1–0.7 J/cm2. To achieve these short pulse durations and mm-scale focal spot radii, the 1.1 MeV [megaelectronvolt (106 eV)] He+ ion beam is neutralized in a drift compression section, which removes the space charge defocusing effect during final compression and focusing. The beam space charge and drift compression techniques resemble necessary beam conditions and manipulations in heavy ion inertial fusion accelerators. Quantitative comparison of detailed particle-in-cell simulations with the experiment plays an important role in optimizing accelerator performance.

scholarly journals 14C AMS Measurements of <100 μG Samples with a High-Current System

Radiocarbon ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl F. Von Reden ◽  
Ann P. McNichol ◽  
Ann Pearson ◽  
Robert J. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Current System ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Beam Current ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
High Current ◽  
Beam Optics ◽  
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Past

The NOSAMS facility at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has started to develop and apply techniques for measuring very small samples on a standard Tandetron accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) system with high-current hemispherical Cs sputter ion sources. Over the past year, results on samples ranging from 7 to 160 μg C showed both the feasibility of such analyses and the present limitations on reducing the size of solid carbon samples. One of the main factors affecting the AMS results is the dependence of a number of the beam optics parameters on the extracted ion beam current. The extracted currents range from 0.5 to 10 μA of 12C− for the sample sizes given above. We here discuss the setup of the AMS system and methods for reliable small-sample measurements and give the AMS-related limits to sample size and the measurement uncertainties.

scholarly journals Heavy-ion beam illumination on a direct-driven pellet in heavy-ion inertial fusion

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuo Someya ◽  
Aleksandar I. Ogoyski ◽  
Shigeo Kawata ◽  
Toru Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
Ion Beam ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Inertial Fusion ◽  
Heavy Ion Beam

scholarly journals Experimental investigation of ion beam transport in laser initiated plasma channels

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. PENACHE ◽  
C. NIEMANN ◽  
A. TAUSCHWITZ ◽  
R. KNOBLOCH ◽  
S. NEFF ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Heavy Ions ◽  
Plasma Channel ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Current ◽  
Beam Transport ◽  
Electrode Gap ◽  
Discharge Gap ◽  
The Magnetic Field

The aim of the presented experiments is to study the transport of a heavy ion beam in a high-current plasma channel. The discharge is initiated in NH3 gas at pressures between 2 and 20 mbar by a line-tuned CO2 laser. A stable discharge over the entire electrode gap (0.5 m) was achieved for currents up to 60 kA. Concerning the ion beam transport, the magnetic field distribution inside the plasma channel has to be known. The ion-optical properties of the plasma channel have been investigated using different species of heavy ions (C, Ni, Au, U) with 11.4 MeV/u during six runs at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschungs-UNILAC linear accelerator. The high magnetic field allowed the accomplishment of one complete betatron oscillation along the discharge channel. The results obtained up to now are very promising and suggest that, by scaling the discharge gap to longer distances, the beam transport over several meters is possible with negligible losses.

New possible laser media in the UV and XUY in high current heavy ion beam induced plasmas

1994 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Hammer ◽  
K. Petkau ◽  
T. Griegel ◽  
H. Langhoff ◽  
M. Mantel
Keyword(s):  
Ion Beam ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Current ◽  
Heavy Ion Beam ◽  
Laser Media
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