Experiments at The Virtual National Laboratory for Heavy Ion Fusion
An overview of experiments is presented, in which the physical dimensions, emittance and perveance are scaled to explore driver-relevant beam dynamics. Among these are beam merging, focusing to a small spot, and bending and recirculating beams. The Virtual National Laboratory for Heavy Ion Fusion (VNL) is also developing two driver-scale beam experiments involving heavy-ion beams with I(sub beam) about 1 Ampere to provide guidance for the design of an Integrated Research Experiment (IRE) for driver system studies within the next 5 years. Multiple-beam sources and injectors are being designed and a one-beam module will be built and tested. Another experimental effort will be the transport of such a beam through about 100 magnetic quadrupoles. The experiment will determine transport limits at high aperture fill factors, beam halo formation, and the influence on beam properties of secondary electron Research into driver technology will be briefly presented, including the development of ferromagnetic core materials, induction core pulsers, multiple-beam quadrupole arrays and plasma channel formation experiments for pinched transport in reactor chambers.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director, Office of Science (US) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 775118
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-45675; HIFAN 1030; R&D Project: Z46020; TRN: US0101363
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Heavy Ion Fusion 2000 Symposium, San Diego, CA (US), 03/12/2000--03/17/2000; Other Information: Supercedes report DE00775118; PBD: 24 Jul 2000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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