The RADLAC beam propagation experiment

Conference · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:10149321

Frost, C A; Shope, S L; Mazarakis, M G; Poukey, J W; Wagner, J S; Turman, B N; Crist, C E ^[1]; Welch, D R; Struve, K W ^[2]

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1. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Mission Research Corp., Albuquerque, NM (United States)

The most recent RADLAC experiments studied propagation and hose stability of a high current beam propagating in the atmosphere, and confirmed the convective nature of the hose instability. The unique combination of high beam current and extremely small initial perturbation, allowed saturation of the hose instability to be observed for the first time. Data on high current propagation was needed because the current scaling is more complex than energy scaling. It was important to collect data at atmospheric pressure to insure that subtle air chemistry effects such as avalanche did not distort the experiment. With this philosophy, the results should be directly scaleable to applications at higher energy.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 10149321
• Report Number(s): SAND-92-0819C; CONF-9106276-9; ON: DE92014620
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1991 DARPA/SDIO/Services annual charged particle beam program review,White Oak, MD (United States),25-27 Jun 1991; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
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PARTICLE BEAMS
WAVE PROPAGATION
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
HOSE INSTABILITY
AIR
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