Recent results on the GOL-3 device

Author

Arzhannikov, A.V. ; Burdakov, A.V. ; Chikunov, V.V. ; Huber, A.F. ; Karyukin, A.V. ; Kapitonov, V.A. ; Koidan, V.S. ; Lebedev, S.V. ; Mekler, K.I. ; Melnikov, P.I. ; Nikiforov, A.A. ; Nikolaev, V.S. ; Postupaev, V.V. ; Ryutov, D.D. ; Semenov, E.P. ; Sinit

Author_Institution

Budker Inst. of Nucl. Phys., Novosibirsk, Russia

Volume

1

fYear

1992

fDate

25-29 May 1992

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

135

Abstract

The review of activity on the GOL-3 program is presented. The first part of the results is concerned with the experiments on the uniform plasma heating by a 100 kJ E-beam. Heating of the bulk plasma electrons up to 1 keV at 10¹⁵ cm^-3 density is achieved. The second group of experiments deals with so-called "two-stage" dense plasma heating. The 10¹⁶-10¹⁷ cm^-3 hydrogen bunches of 0.5-3 m length are produced by gas-puffing. High efficiency of the conversion of the energy, delivered by E-beam to 10¹⁵ cm^-3 background plasma occupying the rest of the device, to the dense plasma bunches, is demonstrated. Last part of the paper describes activity on the microsecond ribbon E-beam of 4×140 cm² cross section and of 200 kJ energy content on the U-2 generator. The transportation of such a beam at 2 m distance in a slit vacuum channel and its shape transformation to a circular one is achieved.

Keywords

particle beam bunching; plasma beam injection heating; relativistic electron beams; GOL-3 device; U-2 generator; beam shape transformation; beam transportation; bulk plasma electron heating; dense plasma bunches; energy conversion efficiency; gas-puffing; hydrogen bunches; microsecond ribbon E-beam; slit vacuum channel; two-stage dense plasma heating; Clouds; Heating; Laser beams; Particle beams; Plasma temperature; Temperature measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Power Particle Beams, 1992 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington,DC

Print_ISBN

000-0-0000-0000-0

Type

conf

Filename

6306482