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Elemnating the spot dilution due to kicker switching in DARHT-II

Authors :
F.W. Chambers
Yu-Jiuan Chen
J. Watson
A.C. Paul
J.T. Weir
Source :
Proceedings of the 2003 Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37440).
Publication Year :
2004
Publisher :
IEEE, 2004.

Abstract

To produce four short X-ray pulses for radiography, the second-axis of the Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test facility (DARHT-II) will use a fast kicker to select current pulses out of the 2-/spl mu/s duration beam provided by the accelerator. Beam motion during the kicker voltage switching could lead to dilution of the time integrated beam spot and make the spot elliptical. A large elliptical X-ray source produced by those beams would degrade the resolution and make radiographic analysis difficult. We have developed a tuning strategy to eliminate the spot size dilution, and tested the strategy successfully on ETA-II with the DARHT-II kicker hardware.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Proceedings of the 2003 Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37440)
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........39e709f26ca4ae207424d249617563e8
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/pac.2003.1289780