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Title: Influence of target requirements on the production, acceleration, transport, and focusing of ion beams

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OSTI ID:5922392

We have calculated the energy gain of ion-driven fusion targets as a function of input energy, ion range, and focal spot radius. For heavy-ion drivers a given target gain, together with final-lens properties, determines a 6-D phase space volume which must exceed that occupied by the ion beam. Because of Liouville's theorem and the inevitability of some phase space dilutions, the beams's 6-D volume will increase between the ion source and the target. This imposes important requirements on accelerators and on transport and focusing systems.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA); California Univ., Berkeley (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
5922392
Report Number(s):
UCRL-85717; CONF-810620-17; ON: DE82001675; TRN: 82-001510
Resource Relation:
Conference: 4. international topical conference on high-power electron and ion-beam research and technology, Palaiseau, France, 29 Jun 1981
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English