22Na放射源慢正电子束流插入装置的研制

北京慢正电子强束流是利用北京正负电子对撞机电子直线加速器电子打靶产生的高强度低能单色正电子束流. 为了提高强束流的机时利用效率和节省强束流用于新建实验站的调试机时, 设计了一套基于²²Na放射源的慢正电子束流装置插入到强束流输运线上. ²²Na放射源慢正电子束流插入装置主要包括²²Na放射源及慢化体、E×B能量选择器、多级静电加速管、磁场输运系统、真空系统、高压绝缘和辐射防护措施等.     

北京慢正电子强束流运行性能测试

慢正电子强束流采用高能脉冲电子束流轰击金属钽靶, 以产生正负电子对的方式提供正电子, 作为慢正电子束流方法学研究和薄膜材料缺陷研究的束流基础. 本文是在该装置实现运行后, 对慢正电子束流的强度、能散、形貌等运行性能的测试工作的介绍, 以及慢正电子湮没多普勒测量系统的调试和标准样品的测量结果.     

重复脉冲强流电子束传输技术研究

分析并推导出了环形强流电子束的稳定传输条件，通过静电磁场模拟计算对CHP01强流电子加速器二极管引导磁场的位形分布、幅值大小及磁场电源进行了优化设计.经实验调试及束斑测量，表明设计的1秒磁场满足束流稳定传输条件，能使电压800kV、电流8kA、脉冲宽度40ns、脉冲重复频率100Hz的环形强流电子束稳定传输，并已成功运用于CHP01强流电子加速器束流传输系统. 关键词： 束流传输 引导磁场 二极管 重复脉冲 电子束     

激光驱动强流电子束产生和控制

在惯性约束聚变(ICF)电子束快点火物理方案中,需要超强拍瓦激光脉冲驱动MeV能量的强流电子束,并沉积数十kJ能量到压缩氘氚芯区。强流电子束的束流品质是影响点火成功的关键因素之一,为深入了解强流电子束产生物理过程,研制成了三维高性能、适应上万CPU核规模的并行粒子模拟程序,并开展了大规模数值模拟研究,探索了强流电子束的产生机制和输运规律。回顾了近几年来快点火研究团队围绕强流电子束产生和控制开展的研究,介绍了导致束流品质差的两大物理原因:预等离子体效应和束流不稳定性磁场的随机散射。针对这两个物理原因,提出了四种提高强流电子束品质的方法:(1)双层金锥靶减弱预等离子体的负面效应;(2)输运丝产生环向磁场准直强流电子束;(3)外加磁场导引强流电子束提高耦合效率;(4)抑制束流不稳定性以降低随机磁场对电子束流的散射。     

“神龙-I”直线感应加速器束流输运系统设计

 系统分析了强流相对论电子束在输运过程中影响束流品质的几种因素,针对束流不同能区凸现的主要矛盾,采取对应性措施以抑制空间电荷效应、束包络振荡和束心横向运动。所有措施归结到束流输运系统设计上表现为合适的束输运半径和匹配磁场的选取,提出了束流输运磁场配置的一般策略,初步设计了“神龙 I”直线感应加速器束流输运系统的总体布局。     

脉冲慢正电子束流的直流化装置

在基于加速器的北京慢正电子强束流装置上, 用Penning-Trap技术实现了脉冲慢正电子束流的存储和直流化. 实验表明, 系统的真空度对正电子的存储效率有严重影响, 脉冲正电子的释放方式决定了直流化后束流的能量分散; 改变释放级信号波形以及释放方式可以得到能量分散小于1eV的准直流化慢正电子束流.     

“神龙—Ⅰ”直线感应加速器束流输运系统设计

系统分析了强流相对论电子束在输运过程中影响束流品质的几种因素,针对束流不同能区凸现的主要矛盾,采取对应性措施以抑制空间电荷效应,束包络振荡和束心横向运动,所有措施归结到束流输运系统设计上表现为合适的束输运半径和匹配磁场的选取,提出了束流输运磁场配置的一般策略,初步设计了“神龙－Ⅰ”直线感应加速器束流输运系统的总体布局。     

神龙二号热阴极注入器束流调试

神龙二号注入器是一台感应叠加型强流脉冲电子束源,采用热阴极工作模式,为神龙二号加速器提供间隔可调的三脉冲电子束。该注入器的束流调试采取PIC模拟和实验调试交互验证、互相促进的方式,先是通过束斑测量确定引导线圈磁场的加载范围,然后通过PIC方法逐级梳理阳极段束线各线圈的磁场配置,再通过束斑测量加以确认。通过这种束流调试方法,获得了保持束流脉冲平顶完整通过的三种磁场配置,以适应下游加速段束流传输的不同要求。讨论了影响束流调试效果的因素,认为提升神龙二号注入器性能的关键是进一步改进大面积热阴极发射的均匀性。     

直线感应加速器输运磁场遗传算法优化

以直线感应加速器（LIA）匹配磁场设计和束线调谐为背景,提出解决强流相对论电子束长距离、小波动、多元件磁约束的输运优化问题的数值优化办法,建立基于遗传算法的优化程序。结合束质心轨迹及束包络耦合模型,设计描述束传输半径波动大小的评价函数,采用励磁元件馈入电流为优化对象,解决LIA磁场配置组合爆炸优化问题。计算结果表明:优化程序可依据不同的初始束流,有针对性地快速给出一组符合束输运要求的励磁电流配置。研究成果为在建的LIA装置束线调谐提供一种重要的数值分析工具。     

L波段同轴相对论返波振荡器导引磁场设计

设计了一个用于为L波段同轴相对论返波振荡器提供导引磁场的双线绕制、分段磁场线圈系统。根据粒子模拟中对磁场的要求和实验室已有的条件来确定磁场的各参数,通过数学软件Mathcad和全电磁粒子模拟程序Karat对设计出的轴向磁场位形进行验证。采用基于Hall效应的Tesla计对加工好的磁场线圈产生轴向磁场空间分布进行了测量,同时利用电子束轰击尼龙靶来考察电子束被导引的效果。利用绕制好的磁场线圈开展了初步实验研究,在二极管电压655kV,电子束流为10.4kA,导引磁场0.7T的条件下,输出微波峰值功率约为864MW,微波波形半高宽为23ns,功率转换效率约为12.7%,频率1.61GHz。     

Performance of a slow positron beam using a hybrid lens design

The University of Hong Kong positron beam employs conventional magnetic field transport to the target, but has a special hybrid lens design around the positron moderator that allows the beam to be focused to millimeter spot sizes at the target. The good focusing capabilities of the beam are made possible by extracting work-function positrons from the moderator in a magnetic field free region using a conventional Soa lens thus minimizing beam canonical angular momentum. An Einzel lens is used to focus the positrons into the magnetic funnel at the end of transportation magnetic field while at the same time bringing up the beam energy to the intermediate value of 7.5 keV. The beam is E × B filtered at this intermediate energy. The final beam energy is obtained by floating the Soa-Einzel system, E × B filter and flight tube, and accelerating the positrons just before the target. External beam steering saddle coils fine tune the position, and the magnetic field around the target chamber is adjusted so as to keep one of the beam foci always on the target. The system is fully computer controlled. Variable energy-Doppler broadened annihilation radiation (VEDBAR) data for a GaN sample are shown which demonstrate the performance of the positron beam system.     

Design of a new type positron beam system

A new type positron beam system is being constructed in Wuhan university. The goal of this project is to build a positron beam which can measure positron lifetimes and has high moderation efficiency. The system utilizes a magnetically guided incident positron beam and the sample is biased to a high negative potential to achieve the desired implantation energies. A conventional tungsten moderator is replaced by a solid Ne moderator with high moderation efficiency (about 1%). A multi-functional target chamber for slow beam studies is designed, which can be used for positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS), Doppler broadening (DB) and coincidence Doppler broadening (CDB) measurements.     

SIMION simulation of a slow pulsed positron beam

A new slow pulsed positron beam, including a positron source, a moderator, a chopper, a pre-buncher, a main-buncher and a sample chamber, etc, has been installed and tested. It is necessary to simulate the acceleration, transportation and space focusing of positrons to meet the needs of beam debugging and further positron annihilation experiments. The result from SIMION simulations shows that the radius of the focused positron beam is less than 5 mm, which is further confirmed in our practical debugging process.     

基于螺线盘聚焦径向电子束的理论分析与仿真研究

对径向电子束在浸没式聚焦条件下的传输特性进行了理论分析,得到了束流传输过程中轴向扩张幅值与外加引导磁场强度之间的解析表达式。阐述了螺线盘在空间中任意一点产生磁场的理论,给出了通以相反方向电流的螺线盘之间磁场的分布规律。设计了一种基于螺线盘聚焦径向电子束的引导磁场系统,并对电子束的传输特性进行了仿真研究,结果表明径向电子束能够在设计的引导磁场系统下实现束流的稳定传输。     

Performance of the plugged-in 22Na based slow positron beam facility

The Beijing intense slow positron beam facility is based on the 1.3 GeV linac of Beijing ElectronPositron CoUider (BEPC) aiming to produce mono-energetic intense slow positron beam for material science investigation. The plugged-in 22Na based slow positron beam section has been newly constructed to supply continuous beam time for the debugging of positron annihilation measurement stations and improve the Beijing intense slow positron beam time using efficiency. Performance testing result of the plugged-in 22Na based slow positron beam facility are reviewed in this paper, with the measurement of the beam transport efficiency, the view of beam spot, the adjustment of beam position, the measurement of beam intensity and energy spread etc. included.     

大回旋半径电子枪渐变线圈磁场的设计及优化

对大回旋半径电子枪的渐变线圈磁场进行了设计,采用3个线圈实现所需要的渐变磁场分布,增加了线圈磁场系统的调节能力,理论和计算机仿真的磁场分布结果符合得很好。将实现的渐变磁场分布同给定的静电场分布相结合,通过求解带电粒子的运动方程得到了粒子轨迹,在此基础上建立大回旋半径电子枪的3维粒子仿真模型,在给定静电场分布条件下分析了3个线圈安匝数对电子束参数的影响,完成了工作电压为40 kV、工作电流为1 A的大回旋半径电子枪的参数优化,得到了横纵速度比为1.4～2.5,纵向速度离散小于8%(横纵速度比为1.9时)的大回旋半径电子束。     

RIKEN超导ECR离子源磁体系统的设计

Superconducting magnet system for a 28GHz ECR ion source has been designed.The maximum axial magnetic fields are 4T at the rf injection side and 2T at the beam extraction side,respectively.The hexapole magnetic field is about 2T on the inner surface of the plasma chamber.The superconducting coils consist of six solenoids and six racetrack windings for a hexapole field.Two kinds of coil arrangements were investigated:one is an arrangement in which the hexpole coil is located in the bore of the solenoids,and another is the reverse of it.The coils use NbTi-Copper conductor and are bath-cooled in liquid helium.The six solenoids are excited with individual power supplies to search for the optimal axial field distribution.The current leads use high Tc material and the cryogenic system is operated in LHe re-condensation mode using small refrigerators.The thermal insulated supports of the cold mass have also been designed based on the calculated results of the magnetic force.The heat loads to 70K and LHe stages were estimated from the design of the supports,the current leads and so on.     

A Magnetic Transport Middle Eastern Positron Beam

A magnetically guided slow positron beam is being constructed at Qatar University and is currently being optimised for regular operation. This is the first positron beam in the Middle East, as well as being the first Arabic positron beam. Novel features in the design include a purely magnetic in-line deflector, working in the solenoid guiding field, to eliminate un-moderated positrons and block the direct line of sight to the source. The impact of this all-magnetic transport on the Larmor radius and resultant beam characteristics are studied by SIMION simulations for both ideal and real life magnetic field variations. These results are discussed in light of the coupled effect arising from electrostatic beam extraction.     

Some investigations of moderators for slow positron beams

Measurements were made on a low-energy positron beam apparatus in an attempt to increase the efficiency of the slow positron yield from radioisotopes. A study was made to sweep thermalized positrons to the surface of a silicon wafer with an applied electric field at 298 and 140 K. Temperature studies were also made on more conventional Pt and Pt+MgO powder moderators and the results are discussed. The role of the MgO powder has been clarified, though fundamental questions remain. The positron apparatus beam and relevant information regarding sources, temperature and magnetic fields are discussed in sufficient detail so that such a slow positron beam utilizing a “conventional” slow positron moderator could be easily duplicated for use in solid state studies.