Overview of The Pulse Line Ion Accelerator
An overview of the Pulse Line Ion Accelerator (PLIA) concept and its development is presented. In the PLIA concept a pulse power driver applied to one end of a helical pulse line creates a traveling wave pulse that accelerates and axially confines a heavy ion beam pulse The motivation for its development at the IFE-VNL is the acceleration of intense, short pulse, heavy ion beams to regimes of interest for studies of High Energy Density Physics and Warm Dense Matter. Acceleration scenarios with constant parameter helical lines are described which result in output energies of a single stage much larger than the several hundred kilovolt peak voltages on the line, with a goal of 3-5 MeV/meter acceleration gradients. The main attraction of the concept is the very low cost it promises. It might be described crudely as an ''air core'' induction linac where the pulse-forming network is integrated into the beam line so the accelerating voltage pulse can move along with the ions to get voltage multiplication.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of AdvancedScientific Computing Research. Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, LawrenceLivermore National Laboratory
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 900655
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-60833; HIFAN 1462; R&D Project: Z41003; BnR: AT5015031; TRN: US0702361
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2nd International Workshop on Recent Progress inInduction Accelerators, RPIA2006, Tsukuba, Japan, March 7-10,2006
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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