RADLAC II/SMILE performance with a magnetically insulated voltage adder

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5935510

Shope, S L; Mazarakis, M G; Frost, C A; Crist, C E; Poukey, J W; Prestwich, K R; Turman, B N ^[1]; Struve, K; Welch, D ^[2]

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1. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
2. Mission Research Corp., Albuquerque, NM (USA)

A 12.5-m long Self Magnetically Insulated Transmission LinE (SMILE) that sums the voltages of 8, 2-MV pulse forming lines was installed in the RADLAC-II linear induction accelerator. The magnetic insulation criteria was calculated using parapotential flow theory and found to agree with MAGIC simulations. High quality annular beams with {beta}{perpendicular} {le} 0.1 and a radius r{sub b} < 2 cm were measured for currents of 50--100-kA extracted from a magnetic immersed foilless diode. These parameters were achieved with 11 to 15-MV accelerating voltages and 6 to 16-kG diode magnetic field. The experimental results exceeded our design expectations and are in good agreement with code simulations. 6 refs., 6 figs., 1 tab.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOD; USDOE; Department of Defense, Washington, DC (USA); USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5935510
• Report Number(s): SAND-90-3051C; CONF-910505-55; ON: DE91012013
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1991 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) particle accelerator conference (PAC), San Francisco, CA (USA), 6-9 May 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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