Intense ion beam diagnostics for particle beam fusion experiments on PBFA II

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5233946

Leeper, R J; Stygar, W A; Maenchen, J; Ruiz, C L; Kensek, R P; Johnson, D J; Lockner, T R; Bailey, J; Cooper, G; Lee, J R

A review of diagnostics used at Sandia National Laboratories to measure the parameters of intense proton and lithium beams generated on the PBFA-II accelerator will be presented. These diagnostics consist of several types, namely: K gamma x-ray pinhole cameras, a multi-frame dEdx ion pinhole camera, a p-i-n array ion pinhole camera, Thomson parabola spectrographs, a Rutherford magnetic spectrograph, plasma visible spectroscopy and several nuclear activation diagnostics. These components when taken together enable a rather thorough description of the 5-MW, 10-TW ion beams presently being produced. A unique feature of these diagnostics is that they are capable of operating in hard (several MeV) x-ray bremsstrahlung backgrounds of some 10/sup 9/ - 10/sup 10/ Radsec. Details of each diagnostic, its integration, data reduction procedures, and recent PBFA-II data will be discussed. 14 refs., 12 figs

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5233946
• Report Number(s): SAND-88-0426C; CONF-880364-4; ON: DE88007279
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACCELERATORS
BARYON REACTIONS
BEAMS
BREMSSTRAHLUNG
CAMERAS
CHARGED PARTICLES
CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
ELASTIC SCATTERING
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
HADRON REACTIONS
IMAGE PROCESSING
IONS
LITHIUM 7 TARGET
LITHIUM IONS
MEASURING METHODS
MONTE CARLO METHOD
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEON BEAMS
NUCLEON REACTIONS
PARTICLE BEAM FUSION ACCELERATOR
PARTICLE BEAMS
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
PROCESSING
PROTON BEAMS
PROTON REACTIONS
RADIATIONS
RUTHERFORD SCATTERING
SCATTERING
SIMULATION
SPECTROSCOPY
TARGETS