THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM OF THE BEVATRON RAPID BEAM EJECTOR (BEAM-KICKER)
The operation cycle of a bubble chamber includes a brief period during which charged particles entering a chamber produce optimum tracks. Following the lead of Rahm at the Brookhaven Cosmotron, a group at the Berkeley Bevatron constructed a rapid beam ejector to produce brief pulses of particles. Energy stored in a capacitor bank is transferred to an air-core magnet suarrounding the proton beam of the Bevatron. The protons are displaced from their normal orbit and strike a suitably located target; particles from this tanget can then emerge from the accelerator. A capacitor bank of 120 mu f stores 13.500 joules at 15,000 volts. Two ignitrons in parallel connect the capacitor to the magnet. The magnet current rises to the peak of 52,000 ampers in 55 microseconds; at peak current a resistor in connected in parallel to damp the current dscay. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- California Univ., Berkeley, CA (US). Radiation Lab.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- NSA Number:
- NSA-12-017836
- OSTI ID:
- 4292691
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-8346
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-58
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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