IBEX foilles diode experiments
Abstract
A new high voltage isolated Blumlein accelerator (IBEX) has been designed and constructed. A new accelerator pulse-forming-line (PFL) configuration produces an output voltage pulse equal to the PFL charge voltage for a matched load (as in a conventional Blumlein circuit); however, the prepulse level is a negligible and both sides of the diode remain at electrostatic ground potential. With a matched planar diode load, IBEX has generated a 4 MeV, 100 kA electron beam. In the present stage of experimentation, a foilless diode load is being used to produce 3 to 4 MeV, 20 to 30 kA annular electron beams with an applied magnetic field strength of approx. 10 kG.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Particle Accelerator Conf
- Pub Date:
- March 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983paac.confR....M
- Keywords:
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- Circuits;
- Diodes;
- Electric Potential;
- Electron Accelerators;
- Loads (Forces);
- Computerized Simulation;
- Electron Beams;
- Electrostatics;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Pulses;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering