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[en] It is well established that pulsed power technology is relatively cheaper than other architectures aiming to produce high-current, high-voltage electron or ion accelerators. The footprints of most pulsed power accelerators are large making them incompatible for applications that require either portability or a large number of similar components for very high power devices (like Z-pinch accelerators). Most of the modern pulsed power accelerators require several stages of pulse conditioning (pulse forming) to convert the multimicrosecond pulse of a Marx generator output to the 50-1 00-ns pulse required for an electron or ion diode or a cell cavity of an inductive voltage adder We propose a new and unique method for constmcting high-current, high-voltage pulsed accelerators. The salient future of the approach is switching and inductively adding the pulses at low voltage straight out of the capacitors through low inductance transfer and soft iron core isolation. High currents can be achieved by feeding each core with many capacitors connected in parallel in a circular array. High voltage is obtained by inductively adding many stages in series. Utilizing the presently available capacitors and switches we can build a 300-kA, 7-MV generator with an overall outer diameter (including capacitors and switches) of 1.2 m and length of 6.5 m exclamation point In addition our accelerator can be multipulsed with a repetition rate up to the capacitor specifications and no less than 10 Hz. As an example the design of a 3-MeV, 100-kA accelerator is presented and analyzed

[en] One critical issue to be addressed in the compact recirculating linac program concerns optimal beam injection into a racetrack-shaped accelerator. There are at least three candidates, axial beam injection, tangential beam injection, and laser-channel-assisted beam injection. In this report these three approaches are examined using computer simulation techniques. 3 refs., 27 figs., 2 tabs

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[en] We describe a design for colliding-beam charge-exchange experiments using the Xe beam that exits from the 1.5-MV Dynamitron of the Argonne National Laboratory Heavy-Ion-Fusion Facility. These experiments canb e performed at any Xe beam energy as it becomes available, from 1.5 MeV to 10 MeV, and at any charge state from Xe⁺₁ to Xe⁺₈

[en] The goal of the RADLAC II lead pulse stability experiment is to demonstrate that a beam with current in excess of 40 kA is capable of propagating a substantial fraction of a Nordsieck length in full density air. The nominal RADLAC II beam parameters are 45 kA, 60-ns FWHM, and a beam radius of 0.8-1.0 cm radius. These parameters should enable us to observe the enhanced stability of high-current beams predicted by theory

[en] A pulsed linear accelerator assembly, RIIM (RADLAC II Module), composed of an injector plus a number of post accelerating gaps was built and successfully operated. The injector and the post accelerating gaps were powered by water strip pulse forming and transmission lines. A high-current, high-voltage, foilless diode injector was used and an annular 40-kA relativistic electron beam was produced and further accelerated through the post accelerating gaps. The final beam energy was close to the sum of injector and gap voltages and equal to 9 MeV

[en] The authors present the design, analysis, and results of the high-brightness electron beam experiments currently under investigation at Sandia National Laboratories. The anticipated beam parameters are the following: 8--12 MeV, 35--50 kA, 30--60 ns FWHM, and 0.5-mm rms beam radius. The accelerators utilized are SABRE and HERMES III. Both are linear inductive voltage adders modified to higher impedance and fitted with magnetically immersed foil less electron diodes. In the strong 20--50 Tesla solenoidal magnetic field of the diode, mm-size electron beams are generated and propagated to a beam stop. The electron beam is field emitted from mm-diameter needle-shaped cathode electrode and is contained in a similar size envelop by the strong magnetic field. These extremely space charge dominated beams provide the opportunity to study beam dynamics and possible instabilities in a unique parameter space. The SABRE experiments are already completed and have produced 30-kA, 1.5-mm FWHM electron beams, while the HERMES-III experiments are on-going

[en] Intense relativistic electron beams are produced in vacuum diodes driven by pulsed power accelerators. For pulse widths approx. 100 nsec, pulse forming lines (PPL) are used to generate the accelerating voltage pulse. This pulse is produced by sequential switching of stored energy through two or more stages. Capacitance and/or inductive coupling usually results in the generation of a low level prepulse voltage some time during the switching sequence. This prepulse is known to have a substantial effect on the performance of the vacuum diode during the main accelerating pulse. Most accelerators use various schemes for reducing this prepulse to acceptable levels. The Isolated Blumlein PPL concept was developed at Sandia to allow for the generation of the main accelerating pulse without generating a prepulse voltage. This concept was implemented into the IBEX accelerator that generates a 4 MV, 100 kA, 20 nsec output pulse. Design and performance data are presented

[en] The design and analysis of a high brightness electron beam experiment under construction at Sandia National Laboratory is presented. The beam energy is 12 MeV, the current 35-40 kA, the rms radius 0.5 mm, and the pulse duration FWHM 40 ns. The accelerator is SABRE a pulsed inductive voltage adder, and the electron source is a magnetically immersed foilless diode. This experiment has as its goal to stretch the technology to the edge and produce the highest possible electron current in a submillimeter radius beam