Testing of a high current dc ESQ accelerator
A high current dc electrostatic quadrupole (ESQ) accelerator is being developed for negative-ion-based neutral beam heating and current drive on the next generation tokamak. Beam energy and current will eventually be in the MeV and multiampere range.l This CCVV (constant- current variable-voltage) accelerator uses a series of identical ESQ modules. We have successfully tested a prototype CCVV accelerator up to 200 keV with a 100 mA He{sub +} beam (with space charge equivalence of 140 mA of D{sup {minus}}) for a pulse length of 1 s. Testing was also done with a 42 mA H{sup {minus}} beam (H{sup {minus}} beam current was limited by source performance). There was almost no beam loss in the ESQ accelerator. no emittance growth was found in the beam injected from the preaccelerator into the ESQ accelerator had low aberration. We are presently designing a proof-of- principle one-channel CCVV accelerator that would accelerate 1.0 A of D{sup {minus}} 1.3 MeV energy. 4 refs., 7 figs.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 5727288
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-29974; CONF-910505-205; ON: DE91013753
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1991 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) particle accelerator conference (PAC), San Francisco, CA (USA), 6-9 May 1991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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