Design of a proof of principle high current transport experiment
Preliminary designs of an intense heavy-ion beam transport experiment to test issues for Heavy Ion Fusion (HIF) are presented. This transport channel will represent a single high current density beam at full driver scale and will evaluate practical issues such as aperture filling factors, electrons, halo, imperfect vacuum, etc., that cannot be fully tested using scaled experiments. Various machine configurations are evaluated in the context of the range of physics and technology issues that can be explored in a manner relevant to a full scale driver. it is anticipated that results from this experiment will allow confident construction of next generation ''Integrated Research Experiments'' leading to a full scale driver for energy production.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 842541
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-46232; HIFAN 1052; R&D Project: Z41003; TRN: US200516%%780
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: APS - 1999 Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Seattle, WA, 11/15-19/1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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