Simulation of beam compression for heavy-ion fusion

Author

Sharp, William M. ; Barnard, J.J. ; Grote, David P. ; Celata, C.M. ; Yu, Simon S. ; Rose, David V. ; Welch, Dale R.

fYear

2004

fDate

1-1 July 2004

Firstpage

346

Abstract

Summary form only given. Recent theoretical work to model the final longitudinal and radial compression of a HIF beam is summarized in this paper. The three-dimensional electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) code WARP3d is used to study beam transport in the drift-compression section, while transport in the fusion chamber is modeled in using the electromagnetic PIC code LSP. Possible low-energy near-term experiments are investigated, as well as full-scale fusion drivers, and for each accelerator category, we examine how transport and error sensitivity scale with the major beam and lattice parameters.

Keywords

fusion reactor targets; fusion reactor theory; ion beam applications; plasma inertial confinement; plasma simulation; beam compression simulation; beam transport; drift-compression section; error sensitivity scale; full scale fusion drivers; fusion chamber; heavy ion inertial fusion beam; lattice parameters; longitudinal compression; low energy near term experiments; radial compression; three-dimensional electrostatic particle-in-cell code; Contracts; Electron sources; Laboratories; Lattices; Magnets; Numerical simulation; Particle beams; Physics; Plasma sources; Tail;

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.2004.1340066

Filename

1340066