Author: R. J. Adler
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Languages : en
Pages : 35
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A hollow electron beam produced in a strong axial magnetic field has been extracted into a neutral gas cell where the magnetic field is zero. Due to radial magnetic field in the transition region, the beam rotates and maintains its hollow profile. Equilbrium is provided by the vz x b0 inward force and centrifugal outward force. We have studied both extraction and propagation phenomena in this configuration. Measurements include beam and net currents, beam generated axial magnetic fields, beam rotation and emittance, and light produced. A filamentation instability has been observed outside the magnetic field in this configuration. Beam equilibrium results are also presented and are compared with both experiment and numerical simulation.
Extraction and Propagation of an Intense Rotating Electron Beam
Author: R. J. Adler
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Languages : en
Pages : 35
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A hollow electron beam produced in a strong axial magnetic field has been extracted into a neutral gas cell where the magnetic field is zero. Due to radial magnetic field in the transition region, the beam rotates and maintains its hollow profile. Equilbrium is provided by the vz x b0 inward force and centrifugal outward force. We have studied both extraction and propagation phenomena in this configuration. Measurements include beam and net currents, beam generated axial magnetic fields, beam rotation and emittance, and light produced. A filamentation instability has been observed outside the magnetic field in this configuration. Beam equilibrium results are also presented and are compared with both experiment and numerical simulation.
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Languages : en
Pages : 35
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A hollow electron beam produced in a strong axial magnetic field has been extracted into a neutral gas cell where the magnetic field is zero. Due to radial magnetic field in the transition region, the beam rotates and maintains its hollow profile. Equilbrium is provided by the vz x b0 inward force and centrifugal outward force. We have studied both extraction and propagation phenomena in this configuration. Measurements include beam and net currents, beam generated axial magnetic fields, beam rotation and emittance, and light produced. A filamentation instability has been observed outside the magnetic field in this configuration. Beam equilibrium results are also presented and are compared with both experiment and numerical simulation.
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Energy Research Abstracts
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Soviet Research on the Transport of Intense Relativistic Electron Beams Through High-pressure Air
Author: Nikita Wells
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Category : Electron beams
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Soviet research on the propagation of intense relativistic electron beams (IREB) through fairly high-pressure air (pressure range 0.1 to 760 Torr) since the early 1970s has included the study of the plasma channel created by the passage of the electron beam through air, the resistive hose instability and its effect on beam propagation, the effect of self-fields, current enhancement, gas expansion, return currents, inherent beam energy spread, and other factors. This report covers Soviet developments in IREB propagation through air where the beam is not focused by external magnetic fields. The information was obtained from Soviet open-source publications with emphasis given to the last ten years of beam propagation in the Soviet Union. The volume of papers published on this subject in recent years indicates a significant increase in Soviet research in this area.
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Category : Electron beams
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Soviet research on the propagation of intense relativistic electron beams (IREB) through fairly high-pressure air (pressure range 0.1 to 760 Torr) since the early 1970s has included the study of the plasma channel created by the passage of the electron beam through air, the resistive hose instability and its effect on beam propagation, the effect of self-fields, current enhancement, gas expansion, return currents, inherent beam energy spread, and other factors. This report covers Soviet developments in IREB propagation through air where the beam is not focused by external magnetic fields. The information was obtained from Soviet open-source publications with emphasis given to the last ten years of beam propagation in the Soviet Union. The volume of papers published on this subject in recent years indicates a significant increase in Soviet research in this area.
ERDA Energy Research Abstracts
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Energy Research Abstracts
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Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : Power resources
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Pages : 880
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Intense Electron Beam Propagation Across a Magnetic Field
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
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In this paper we consider the propagation of an intense electron-ion beam across an applied magnetic field. In the absence of the applied field, the beam system is in a Bennett equilibrium state that involves electrons with both large axial and thermal velocities and a cold stationary space-charge neutralizing ion species. Typical parameters under consideration are V{sub o} (approximately) 1 MV, I (approximately) 5 kA, T{sub e} (approximately) 100 keV, and beam radii (approximately) 1 cm. We find that in the intense beam regime, the propagation is limited due to space-charge depression caused by the deflection of the electron beam by the transverse field. This critical field is of the order of the peak self-magnetic field of the electron beam which is substantially higher than the single particle cut-off field. 8 refs., 3 figs.
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
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In this paper we consider the propagation of an intense electron-ion beam across an applied magnetic field. In the absence of the applied field, the beam system is in a Bennett equilibrium state that involves electrons with both large axial and thermal velocities and a cold stationary space-charge neutralizing ion species. Typical parameters under consideration are V{sub o} (approximately) 1 MV, I (approximately) 5 kA, T{sub e} (approximately) 100 keV, and beam radii (approximately) 1 cm. We find that in the intense beam regime, the propagation is limited due to space-charge depression caused by the deflection of the electron beam by the transverse field. This critical field is of the order of the peak self-magnetic field of the electron beam which is substantially higher than the single particle cut-off field. 8 refs., 3 figs.
A Study of Combination, Neutralization, and Pinch Mode Propagation of an Intense, Relativistic Electron Beam
Author: Walter Louis Gardner
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Category : Electron beams
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : Electron beams
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Fusion Energy Update
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Category : Controlled fusion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Category : Controlled fusion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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On the Propagation of High Intensity, Relativistic Electron Beams
Author: Thomas G. Roberts
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Languages : en
Pages : 13
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Intense beams of relativistic electrons have been extracted from the electrode space of flash X-ray machines and projected into plasma columns and drift spaces. In the plasma columns the beam pinches itself and propagates to a target at the end of the discharge. The plasma column is produced by a conventional pinch discharge in argon and the magnetic field of the plasma column is sufficient to guide the high energy beam around rather sharp curves with little loss of energy. In addition to the very interesting properties of the beam itself, and its applications in thermonuclear work, the possibility of using these beams for a relatively inexpensive, ion accelerator which may produce intense pulses of heavy ions with energies as high as 10 to the 12th power eV per nucleon has recently stimulated research. It is the purpose of the paper to describe the principal experimental results so far obtained, and to derive an expression for the maximum current which a beam may possess by use of the Bennett theory and the equilibrium current distribution which the beam must assume. It will also be shown that this expression reduces to the Alfven limit in a frame in which the beam's space charge is fully neutralized, and indicates that beams which exceed the Alfven limit may be expected to propagate in the laboratory frame. (Author).
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Languages : en
Pages : 13
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Intense beams of relativistic electrons have been extracted from the electrode space of flash X-ray machines and projected into plasma columns and drift spaces. In the plasma columns the beam pinches itself and propagates to a target at the end of the discharge. The plasma column is produced by a conventional pinch discharge in argon and the magnetic field of the plasma column is sufficient to guide the high energy beam around rather sharp curves with little loss of energy. In addition to the very interesting properties of the beam itself, and its applications in thermonuclear work, the possibility of using these beams for a relatively inexpensive, ion accelerator which may produce intense pulses of heavy ions with energies as high as 10 to the 12th power eV per nucleon has recently stimulated research. It is the purpose of the paper to describe the principal experimental results so far obtained, and to derive an expression for the maximum current which a beam may possess by use of the Bennett theory and the equilibrium current distribution which the beam must assume. It will also be shown that this expression reduces to the Alfven limit in a frame in which the beam's space charge is fully neutralized, and indicates that beams which exceed the Alfven limit may be expected to propagate in the laboratory frame. (Author).