Nonlinear Plasma Dynanics in the Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

Excitation of nonlinear plasma oscillations by an ultrarelativistic electron beam is considered in this paper. It is shown, by analytical solutions of the fully relativistic nonlinear fluid equations in one dimension, that under certain conditions on the relative densities of the electron beam and the plasma, extremely large longitudinal electric fields can be generated in the wake of the beam. This scheme can be considered as a nonlinear regime of the plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA), and is seen to have the advantage that the transformer ratio, the ratio of the maximum amplitude of the accelerating field behind the driving beam over the maximum amplitude of the decelerating field inside of the beam, can be made arbitrarily large, dependent only on the length of the driving beam. The effects of beam loading on the efficiency of this scheme are considered, and are shown to be equivalent to those predicted in the linear regime.     

Simulation of the Wisconsin-Argonne Plasma Wakefield Experiment

The plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA) is an advanced accelerator concept that uses the large electric fields that can be generated in a plasma to accelerate charged particles. We present the results of a self-consistent two-dimensional simulation of the first experiment designed to test this concept. Linear theory predicts for this experiment an accelerating gradient of approximately 95 MV/m. However, the simulations indicate that a much larger accelerating field is achieved in the plasma. This enhancement is due to strong beam pinching, which is not treated self-consistently by a linear theory. Wave steepening due to a nonlinear modulation of the background plasma is also observed. This steepening results in a phase shift that degrades the acceleration.     

Self-Injection and Acceleration of Monoenergetic Electron Beams from Laser Wakefield Accelerators in a Highly Relativistic Regime

Self-injection and acceleration of monoenergetic electron beams from laser wakefield accelerators are first investigated in the highly relativistic regime, using 100 TW class, 27 fs laser pulses. Quasi-monoenergetic multi- bunched beams with energies as high as multi-hundredMeV are observed with simultaneous measurements of side-scattering emissions that indicate the formation of self-channelfing and self-injection of electrons into a plasma wake, referred to as a ＇bubble＇. The three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations confirmed multiple self-injection of electron bunches into the bubble and their beam acceleration with gradient of 1.5 GeV/cm.     

Stability of the Driving Bunch in the Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

We investigate the stability of the driving electron or positron beam in the plasma wakefield accelerator (PWFA). Although the beam is subject to self-focusing, filamentation, and two-stream instability, we find that all of these can be stabilized by introducing thermal energy and an axial magnetic field.     

直线加速器驻波腔中的瞬态束流负载效应

在高能加速器中, 随着单个束团和束团串中电荷量的提高, 当粒子束穿过加速腔的时候, 感应出的瞬态束流负载电压也越来越高. 但是, 在通常分析束流负载的时候, 往往对稳态束流负载研究的比较多, 而对瞬态束流负载的研究要相对少一些. 本文首先对束流负载的瞬态特性和束团穿过加速腔时高频源所看到谐振腔谐振频率的变化方式进行了分析, 然后又对两种情况下谐振腔的最优失谐条件进行了讨论, 并给出了相应的解析公式. 在第1种情况下, 当粒子束穿过加速腔的时候, 谐振腔的自然谐振频率能够及时地得到调节, 从而使高频源的电流与谐振腔的腔压同相, 以提高高频源的效率; 在第2种情况下, 当粒子束穿过加速腔的时候, 谐振腔的自然谐振频率保持不变, 不能被调节. 最后, 还对BEPCⅡ现有预注入器的预聚束腔、BEPCⅡ未来预注入器的两个次谐波聚束腔中的瞬态束流负载效应进行了分析.     

Surface Plasma Wave Solitons

It is shown that nonlinear electron plasma surface waves are modulationally unstable and can propagate as solitons on a cold electron plasma-vacuum interface.     

Stimulated Scattering from Ion Cyclotron Wave

A study is made of the stimulated backscattering of electromagnetic ordinary waves from obliquely propagating ion cyclotron waves in a magnetized plasma. It is found that the threshold is considerably lower and the growth rate considerably larger than the corresponding values for backscattering from perpendicularly propagating lower and upper hybrid waves.     

A New Method of Protecting Ion Source Accelerators against Deterioration Due to Source Breakdown

A new countermeasure against the surge current due to capacitive stored energy during source breakdown is proposed. The effectiveness is confirmed both numerically and experimentally.     

Submicrosecond Pulsed Electron Beam Formation in Electron Sources and Accelerators with Plasma Emitters

The most popular methods for submicrosecond electron beam generation and physical processes underlying electron extraction from plasma in plasma emitters are considered. Electron sources and accelerators developed on the basis of plasma emitters allow pulsed beams with currents from tens to 10³ A and current densities of several amperes per square centimeter, pulse durations of hundreds of nanoseconds, and high repetition rates to be generated.     

Non-Uniformity of Ion Implantation in Direct-Current Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation

A particle-in-cell simulation is developed to study dc plasma immersion ion implantation. Particular attention is paid to the influence of the voltage applied to the target on the ion path, and the ion flux distribution on the target surface. It is found that the potential near the aperture within the plasma region is not the plasma potential, and is impacted by the voltage applied to the implanted target. A curved equipotential contour expands into the plasma region through the aperture and the extent of the expansion depends on the voltage. Ions accelerated by the electric field in the sheath form a beam shape and a flux distribution on the target surface, which are strongly dependent on the applied voltage. The results of the simulations demonstrate the formation mechanism of the grid-shadow effect, which is in agreement with the result observed experimentally.     

Partial Wave Analysis of Hydrogen Molecule Ion

A nonadiabatic procedure is proposed to obtain the eigensolutions of the hydrogen molecule ion. The partial wave behavior of the electron and the proton pair in the three lowest states is investigated in detail in this paper. The overlap of nodes for different partial waves of the protons is found.     

Comments on Surface Plasma Wave Solitons

We discuss surface waves propagating on a semi-infinite cold plasma with slowly varying density. Previous results are modified.     

表面等离子体激光Q开关原理研究

提出了表面等离子体波调Q方法,阐述了它调Q的原理,对表面等离子体波Q开关的特性进行了理论和原理性实验研究。     

Continuing Studies of Plasma Erosion Switches for Power Conditioning on Multiterawatt Pulsed Power Accelerators

Recent PITHON experiments with plasma erosion switches (PES) have extended the range of operation of the switches by about 50 percent, in terms of closed time and charge passing through the switch. The quantity of charge passed through the switch has been increased to as much as 35 mC. Currents as large as 1 MA and voltages as great as 1.8 MV have been switched off to be diverted to a downstream load. The impedance of the erosion switch can be described as having three stages: 1) essentially zero impedance, 2) a transitional opening phase, and 3) an impedance which is very large (greater than 5 ?) in comparson with the subohm downstream load. Current diagnostics, consisting of Rogowski coils and segmented shunts, have been successfully developed to monitor the current which propagates to the load region. These monitors have measured rise times as short as 38 ns and slew rates as great as 1014 A/s at the load. With wire array loads, the pulse conditioning of the switch has been observed to reduce the magnitude of the current losses in the feed which are present when no switch is used. Correlations have been made between the switch closed time, voltage, current, and power with the feed inductance and the generator power injected into the magnetic insulated transmission line (MITL).     

Nonlinear Wave Propagation Through Cold Plasma

Abstract

Electromagnetic wave propagation through cold collision free plasma is studied using the nonlinear perturbation method. It is found that the equations can be reduced to the modified Kortweg-de Vries equation.     

Hot Ion Plasma Heating Experiments in SUMMA

Initial empirical results are presented for the hot-ion plasma heating experiments conducted in the new SUMMA (Superconducting Magnetic Mirror Apparatus) at NASA Lewis Research Center. A discharge was formed by applying a radially inward DC electric field near the mirror throats. Data were obtained at midplane magnetic flux densities from 1.0 to 3.5 tesla. Charge-exchange neutral particle energy analyzer data were reduced to ion temperatures using a plasma model that included a Maxwellian energy distribution super-imposed on an azimuthal drift, finite ion orbits, and radial variations in density and electric field. Using this plasma model, the highest ion temperatures computed were 5 keV, 1.2 keV, and 1 keV for He+, H2+, and H+, respectively. These were obtained at a mid-plane magnetic flux density of 1.6 T. Ion temperature was found to scale roughly as (P/B)n, where P/B is the ratio of power input to magnetic flux density and n is about 1 for hydrogen and 2 for helium. Optical spectroscopy line-broadening measurements yielded ion temperatures about 15 percent higher than the charge-exchange neutral particle analyzer results for hydrogen and about 50 percent higher for helium. Spectroscopically obtained electron temperatures ranged from 3 to 30 eV.     

等离子辅助镀膜技术

传统的电子束蒸发工艺提供了高速率的沉积，但由于成膜分子的能量较低，使沉积的薄膜排列密度很低，其性能和块材料区别很大，已有不少学者发现了很多金属和氧化物薄膜具有典型的柱状结构，薄膜的低排列密度造成了其光学常数和机械性能不如块状材料，近几年发展起来的高功率等离子体辅助镀膜技术解决了上述问题，本文报道了我国自己研制的等离子体源（GIS）的性能指标，用这个源所做的单层TiO2膜的成膜工艺与质量，以及用等离子辅助沉积的减反射膜的工艺。