High Current Experiment: First Results
Abstract
The High Current Experiment (HCX) is being assembled at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of the US program to explore heavy-ion beam transport at a scale representative of the low-energy end of an induction linac driver for fusion energy production. The primary mission of this experiment is to investigate aperture fill factors acceptable for the transport of space-charge dominated heavy-ion beams at high spacecharge intensity over long pulse durations. This machine will test transport issues at a driver-relevant scale resulting from nonlinear space-charge effects and collective modes, beam centroid alignment and beam steering, matching, image charges, halo, lost-particle induced electron effects, and longitudinal bunch control.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- June 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002STIN...0300449S
- Keywords:
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- Heavy Ions;
- Electron Bunching;
- High Current;
- Beam Steering;
- Ion Beams;
- Quadrupoles;
- Linear Accelerators;
- Space Charge;
- Physics (General)