DARHT operations and maintenance manual
The Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) injector system was designed, constructed and tested in the dummy load configuration at Pulse Sciences, Inc. (PSI), San Leandro, CA for Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) during the period from September 1989 through December 1990. The injector was installed and its operation was demonstrated in the dummy load configuration at LANL from January 1991 through April 1991. Testing of the system configuration into a diode load began in June 1991. Cross-sectional views of the injector in both the dummy load and system configurations are shown. The injector is designed to produce a 4 MV, flat-top ({plus_minus} 1%), 65 nsec (99--99%) acceleration pulse into a 150 ohm load with a command fire jitter of less than 3 nsec (3{sigma}). The load consists of an adjustable sodium thiosulfate solution resistor located at the vacuum tube interface in parallel with an {approximately}1 k{Omega} electron beam diode. This manual describes the injector and its ancillary systems and gives operating, maintenance and assembly instructions for the system in the dummy load configuration.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States); Pulse Sciences, Inc., San Leandro, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 10136571
- Report Number(s):
- LA-SUB-93-63; ON: DE93008819; IN: PSI-OM-1538
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Dec 1991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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