An engineering overview of an electrostatic quadrupole lattice for a high current transport experiment

Author

Karpenko, Victor ; Seidl, Peter ; Franks, R. Mark ; Lund, Steven

Author_Institution

Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1447

Abstract

The Heavy Ion Fusion Virtual National Laboratory is building a High Current Experiment (HCX) to explore the transport of a heavy-ion beam at a scale appropriate to the low-energy end of a driver for heavy ion fusion. The HCX is presently being designed and assembled in multiple stages at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The scientific motivation for the HCX is presented in a related paper. We overview the engineering design of an early phase of the HCX involving the transport of a 1.7 MeV, 0.7 Amp K⁺ beam through a lattice of alternating gradient electrostatic quadrupoles (ESQs). Four tanks of 10 quadrupoles each are ultimately planned, corresponding to 20 periods of ESQ transport. Mechanical, high-voltage, and vacuum engineering aspects of the ESQ transport lattice are presented

Keywords

beam handling equipment; electrostatic lenses; high-voltage techniques; plasma inertial confinement; vacuum apparatus; 1.7 MeV; HCX; High Current Experiment; alternating gradient electrostatic quadrupoles; beam transport; electrostatic quadrupole lattice; high-voltage; vacuum; Acceleration; Assembly; Cyclotrons; Electrodes; Electrostatics; Elementary particle vacuum; Filling; Laboratories; Lattices; Particle beams;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.986709

Filename

986709