DocumentCode
861646
Title
The Experimental Test Accelerator (ETA) II
Author
Fessenden, T.J. ; Atchison, W.L. ; Birx, D.L. ; Clark, J.C. ; Cook, E.G. ; Hester, R.E. ; Reginato, L.L. ; Rogers, D., Jr. ; Spoerlein, R.E. ; Struve, K.W. ; Yokota, T.T.
Author_Institution
University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, California 94550
Volume
28
Issue
3
fYear
1981
fDate
6/1/1981 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
3401
Lastpage
3403
Abstract
The Experimental Test Accelerator (ETA) is designed to produce a 10 kAmp electron beam at an energy of 4.5 MeV in 40 nsec pulses at an average rate of 2 pps. The accelerator also operates in bursts of 5 pulses spaced by as little as one millisec at an average rate of 5 pps. The machine is currently operating near 80% of its design values and has accumulated over 2.5 million pulses--mostly at a rate of one pps. Our previous paper described the ETA injector and its associated pulse power system. This paper discusses the plasma cathode electron source, the remainder of the accelerator, and the operating characteristics of the machine.
Keywords
Cathodes; Electron accelerators; Electron beams; Life estimation; Plasma accelerators; Plasma properties; Plasma sources; Pulse power systems; Testing; Time of arrival estimation;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9499
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TNS.1981.4332117
Filename
4332117
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