Improvements on the HIBALL heavy-ion fusion driver

Conference · Mon Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1983 · IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5580095

Hofmann, I; Beckert, K; Bohne, D; Jahnke, A; Muller, R W

Preliminary studies of accelerator scenarios suitable for the HIBALL Heavy Ion Fusion Reactor Study have shown that it is of interest to consider an RF linac beam current as high as possible in order to reduce the filling time of the storage rings to about 1 msec. It is shown here for singly charged Bi ions (10 GeV kinetic, 5 MJ total energy) that such a scenario helps to avoid growth of the resistive microwave mode and reduces the complexity of transverse stacking manipulations in the rings. This work indicates that it might be desirable for future studies to lower the linac current and thus the enormous instantaneous RF power consumption by finding ways to suppress microwave growth in order to stretch the storage ring filling time.

• Research Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, 8046 Garching
• OSTI ID: 5580095
• Report Number(s): CONF-830311-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States) Journal Volume: NS-30:4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
430100* -- Particle Accelerators-- Design
Development
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BEAM CURRENTS
BEAM STACKING
BISMUTH IONS
CHARGED PARTICLES
CURRENTS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS
HILACS
IONS
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
MICROWAVE RADIATION
RADIATIONS
RF SYSTEMS
STORAGE RINGS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS