Magnetically immersed diode evaluation on the ASTERIX generator up to 7 MV

Author

Vermare, C. ; Horde, Y. ; Magnin, L. ; Merle, E. ; Nicolas, R. ; Prat, M. ; Rosol, R. ; Tailleur, Y. ; Toury, M. ; Bayol, F. ; Delbos, C. ; Guarrigues, A. ; Nicot, G. ; Cooper, G. ; McLean, J. ; Critchley, A. ; Sinclair, M.

Author_Institution

DAM, CEA, Pontfaverger-Moronvilliers, France

fYear

2004

fDate

1-1 July 2004

Firstpage

205

Abstract

Summary form only given. We present the results obtained during the ASTERIX generator experiment at CEG. B field generation is the main technological issue. A 400 kJ capacitor bank connected to different solenoid designs allowed 27 T to be achieved (maximum on axis) inside a 40 mm diameter vacuum cell. An effort has been made to calibrate the electrical diagnostics to evaluate diode impedance. X-ray diagnostics measured the horizontal and vertical spot size, dose on the axis and dose rate. Simulations using the Lsp code were used to design the geometries and results were compared to the experimental data. CEA/DAM is interested in a magnetically immersed diode for radiography dynamic experiments.

Keywords

calibration; plasma diagnostics; plasma diodes; plasma production; plasma simulation; radiography; 27 T; 40 mm; 400 kJ; 7 MV; ASTERIX generator; X-ray diagnostics; calibration; capacitor bank; diode impedance; dose rate; electrical diagnostics; magnetic field generation; magnetically immersed diode evaluation; radiography; solenoid designs; vacuum cell; Calibration; Diodes; Dissolved gas analysis; Electron beams; Instruments; Ion beams; Laboratories; Magnetosphere; Radiography; Solenoids;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 2004. ICOPS 2004. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. The 31st IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8334-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2004.1339792

Filename

1339792