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Plasma-filled diode in the electron accelerator on base of a pulsed linear transformer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

B.M. Kovalchuk ,
A.A. Zherlitsyn  and
N.N. Pedin
B.M. Kovalchuk
Affiliation:
Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Science, Tomsk, Russia
A.A. Zherlitsyn*
Affiliation:
Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Science, Tomsk, Russia
N.N. Pedin
Affiliation:
Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Science, Tomsk, Russia
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: A.A. Zherlitsyn, 2/3 Academichesky Ave., 634055, Tomsk, Russia. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Technique of a linear transformer allows now to build the generators of high power nanosecond pulses with the current rise time of ~100 ns without intermediate power compression stages. This technique is being examined for use in high current high voltage pulsed accelerators. Plasma-filled diode has several advantages over standard vacuum diode that allow to improve the accelerators parameters. In this paper, plasma-filled diode experiments are described on generation of e-beam in the linear transformer accelerator. Possibility of use in the diode of isolated parallel plasma channels has been proven for the e-beam generation with cross-sectional area up to 50 cm2. The beam with current of 100 kA at voltage more than 400 kV was generated in the plasma-filled diode. Energy transmission efficiency from primary storage into a beam is about 54%.

Keywords

Electron acceleratorLinear transformerPlasma-filled diode
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 547 - 552
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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