Pulsed power for particle beam accelerators in military applications

Technical Report · Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5198087· OSTI ID:5198087

Smith, I D

Techniques useful for generating and conditioning power for high energy pulsed accelerators with potential weapon applications are described. Pulsed electron accelerators are exemplified by ETA and ATA at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories and RADLAC at Sandia Laboratories Albuquerque. Pulse-power techniques used in other applications are briefly mentioned, including some that may be useful for collective ion accelerators. The limitations of pulse-power and the general directions of desirable development are illustrated. The main needs are to increase repetition rate and to decrease size.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5198087
• Report Number(s): UCID-18733; TRN: 80-015514
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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