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Title: Proposed research on advanced accelerator concepts

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5197248· OSTI ID:5197248

This report summarizes technical progress and accomplishments during the proposed three-year research on advanced accelerator concepts supported by the Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-FG02-88ER40465. A vigorous theoretical program has been pursued in critical problem areas related to advanced accelerator concepts and the basic equilibrium, stability, and radiation properties of intense charged particle beams. Broadly speaking, our research has made significant contributions in the following three major areas: Investigations of physics issues related to particle acceleration including two-beam accelerators and cyclotron resonance laser (CRL) accelerators; Investigations of RF sources including the free- electron lasers, cyclotron resonance masers, and relativistic magnetrons; Studies of coherent structures in electron plasmas and beams ranging from a low-density, nonrelativistic, pure electron plasma column to high-density, relativistic, non-neutral electron flow in a high-voltage diode. The remainder of this report presents theoretical and computational advances in these areas.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Fusion Center
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-88ER40465
OSTI ID:
5197248
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/40465-T2; ON: DE92000824; TRN: 91-028735
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English