ILSE-ESQ injector scaled experiment
Conference
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OSTI ID:10179512
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
A 2 MeV, 800 mA, K{sup +} injector for the Heavy Ion Fusion Induction Linac Systems Experiments (ISLE) is under development at LBL. It consists of a 500 keV-1MeV diode preinjector followed by an electrostatic quadrupole accelerator (ESQ). One of the key issues for the ESQ centers around the control of beam aberrations due to the ``energy effect``: in a strong electrostatic quadrupole field, ions at beam edge will have energies very different from those on the axis. The resulting kinematic distortions lead to S-shaped phase spaces, which, if uncorrected, will lead eventually to emittance growth. These beam aberrations can be minimized by increasing the injection energy and/or strengthening the beam focusing. It may also be possible to compensate for the ``energy effect`` by proper shaping of the quadrupoles electrodes. In order to check the physics of the ``energy effect`` of the ESQ design a scaled experiment has been designed that will accommodate the parameters of the source, as well as the voltage limitations, of the Single Beam Transport Experiment (SBTE). Since the 500 keV pre-injector delivers a 4 cm converging beam, a quarter-scale experiment will fit the 1 cm converging beam of the SBTE source. Also, a 10 mA beam in SBTE, and the requirement of equal perveance in both systems, forces all the voltages to scale down by a factor 0.054. Results from this experiment and corresponding 3D PIC simulations will be presented.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 10179512
- Report Number(s):
- LBL--33315; HIFAN--575; CONF-930511--355; ON: DE93018707
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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