Hermes III

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5024929

Hasti, D E; Ramirez, J J; Prestwich, K R; Sanford, T W.L.; Hamil, R A

Hermes III is a major new gamma-ray simulator that is part of the Simulation Technology Laboratory Project. This accelerator will significantly improve the capability of Sandia National Laboratories and the Department of Energy to evaluate the effects of gamma-ray radiation from nuclear weapons on weapons subsystems. This accelerator will be designed to produce 10/sup 5/R, 5 x 10/sup 12/ R/S and 2 x 10/sup 20/ R/S/sup 2/ over a 500 cm/sup 2/ area. The radiation dose will vary less than a factor of two over this area and less than a factor of four throughout a volume found by extending this surface 15 cm further from the gamma-ray converter. The minimum dose in this volume will be greater than or equal to5 x 10/sup 4/ R. The accelerator will be designed with sufficient reliability and short enough turn-around time to produce more than 600 radiation pulses per year. In Hermes III we are increasing the peak power in the beam from 1.2 TW of Hermes II to 16 TW. Two techniques for achieving these high powers have been successfully developed. The first technique is a high current linear induction accelerator with several parallel beams. Experiments to evaluate this concept were done on the MABE accelerator. The second concept uses induction cavities and a magnetically insulated transmission line (MITL) to form a multi-terawatt voltage adder. This report gives a detailed description of Hermes III and its components.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5024929
• Report Number(s): SAND-85-2154C; CONF-8510165-3; ON: DE86001622
• Resource Relation: Conference: 6. JOWOG meeting, Aldermaston, England, 7 Oct 1985
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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