Design and Development of the LEDA Slow Wire Scanner Profile Measurement

Conference · Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:16836

O'Hara, J F; Power, J F; Ledford, J; Gilpatrick, J D; Stettler, M; Sage, J

The Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator (LEDA) [1, 2] is being developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory as part of the Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT) project. One of the diagnostics being developed to commission LEDA [3] is a slow wire scanner beam profile measurement. Initial profile measurements will be made at 6.7 MeV beam energy and 100 mA beam current. The wire scanner is an interceptive device that will move two silicon carbide coated graphite mono-filament fibers (wires) through the beam, in order to obtain the profile. Some of the design considerations discussed are; Mechanical design, wire temperature analysis, secondary electron detection, signal processing, and system control.

• Research Organization: Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, MO (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00613
• OSTI ID: 16836
• Report Number(s): KCP-613-6071; CONF-980827-; ON: DE98059409; BR: DP; ON: DE98059409; BR: DP; TRN: US0103510
• Resource Relation: Conference: XIX International Linear Accelerator (LINAC 98) Conference, Chicago, IL (US), 08/23/1998--08/28/1998; Other Information: Supercedes report DE98059409; PBD: 31 Aug 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
BEAM CURRENTS
BEAM PROFILES
DESIGN
ELECTRON DETECTION
FIBERS
GRAPHITE
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
SILICON CARBIDES
TRITIUM
HYDROGEN PRODUCTION
BEAM MONITORS
DATA PROCESSING
CONTROL SYSTEMS