Conversion of EROS into proton accelerator

Author

Jones, Awp ; Threadgold, J.R. ; Omar, K.

Author_Institution

Atomic Weapons Establ., Aldermaston, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The design of the conversion of the pulsed electron beam accelerator EROS (3.5MeV, 100kA) into a proton accelerator is proposed. These proton beams are intended to impact fluorinated or lithium containing targets to liberate characteristic radiations. Initial work including circuit simulations to identify EROS as the most suitable of AWE´s pulsed accelerators is presented. Maintaining the negative polarity (centre conductor) pulse two proton loads, one based on a rod pinch diode[1] and another using a convolute to accelerate the protons forward into a gas cell[2]. The diode concepts are optimised and the potential fluence predicted.

Keywords

beam handling techniques; diodes; electron accelerators; electron beams; proton accelerators; EROS; diodes; fluorinated target; lithium target; negative polarity; proton accelerator; pulsed electron beam accelerator design; Acceleration; Circuit simulation; Conductors; Diodes; Electron accelerators; Electron beams; Lithium; Particle beams; Proton accelerators; Pulse circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science - Abstracts, 2009. ICOPS 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2617-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2009.5227642

Filename

5227642