Electron-beam-pinch experiment at Harry Diamond Laboratories: Providing for a high-dose-rate flash x-ray facility for transient radiation effects on electronics (TREE) testing of pieceparts. Final report, May-Jul 90

Technical Report · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5148242

Robertson, D N; Litz, M S; Blomquist, S M; Blackburn, J C; Ovrebo, G K

The peak photon-radiation dose rate of the High-Intensity Flash X-Ray facility has been increased by at least a factor of five through the use of custom beam-pinching hardware. With this hardware, the facility can now routinely provide a dose rate of 2.7 times 10 to the 11th power rads(Si)/s, at a distance of 1/4 in. from the drift-tube face, while providing excellent radial drop-off to minimized irradiation of items surrounding the device under test. The experimental results show the optimum operating parameters of the beam-pinching hardware to be a drift-tube length equal to 6 cm with an internal nitrogen gas pressure of 0.1 Torr.

• Research Organization: Harry Diamond Labs., Adelphi, MD (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5148242
• Report Number(s): AD-A-239558/0/XAB; HDL-TM-91-11
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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