Heavy Ion Fusion Program. Year-end report, October 1978-September 1979

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5722983· OSTI ID:5722983

The more significant activities and results reported for this year are: (1) Commissioning, in January 1979, of a large-area Cs/sup +1/ ion source of 1.2 amperes at 500 kV. (2) Commissioning, in July 1979, of the first drift-tube of the three drift-tube accelerator. (3) Acceleration, in January 1979, of a high-brightness, 40 milliampere Xe/sup +1/ beam through a Cockcroft-Walton column to 500 kV and confirmation of satisfactory emittance and charge distribution. (4) Development of a conceptual design for a 500 J induction linac test-bed facility to test many of the features needed for the success of an igniter (LBL PUB 5031). (5) Improvements to the systems studies of a Heavy Ion Induction Linac Driver over a wide parameter range with emphasis on cost and efficiency trade-off. (6) Start-up of a (Cs/sup +1/, Cs/sup +1/) ion-ion cross section measurement program. Initial results of the scattering of Cs/sup +1/ ions on Xe gas (electronically similar to Cs/sup +1/) have shown some surprising results. (7) Expansion of theoretical studies on the behavior of space-charge dominated ion beams.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5722983
• Report Number(s): LBL-10291; TRN: 80-004887
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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