Dual-energy driving method for S-band Interlaced Electron LINAC

Author

Hyung Dal Park ; Byeong-No Lee ; Ki Baek Song ; Sung Su Cha ; Byung Cheol Lee

Author_Institution

Radiat. Instrum. Res. Div., Korea Atomic Energy Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

An interlaced dual-energy electron LINAC was developed for cargo inspection systems. The electron energy is varied based on the RF power level and initial current of the E-gun. This paper describes a dual-energy driving method for an interlaced dual-energy electron LINAC using variable applied levels of the E-gun dual-pulse power supply, a high voltage modulator, and a dual RF power source. The electron energy is controlled using dual RF power based on the voltages of the electron gun and RF power source. Consequently, we can control the variable electron energy from about 5 MeV to 9 MeV in our designed S-band RF LINAC system.

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; electron accelerators; electron guns; linear accelerators; E-gun dual-pulse power supply; E-gun initial current; RF power level; S-band RF LINAC system; S-band interlaced electron LINAC; cargo inspection systems; dual RF power source; dual-energy driving method; electron energy; electron gun; high voltage modulator; variable applied levels; Cavity resonators; Inspection; Klystrons; Linear particle accelerator; Modulation; Power supplies; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0533-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829799

Filename

6829799