High-voltage electron cooler project for NICA collider

A high-voltage electron cooling system (ECS) with electron energy reaching 2.5 MeV for the NICA collider is being designed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. The ECS is being developed in correspondence with the available experience in manufacturing similar systems from around the world. The main feature of this design is the use of two cooling electron beams (one beam per collider ring); electrons are accelerated and decelerated by a common high-voltage generator. A conceptual project of high-voltage ECS has been developed. The cooler consists of three tanks filled with SF₆ gas under pressure. Two of them contain electron-beam forming systems; each system consists of two electron guns, two electron collectors, and accelerating-decelerating tubes placed in a longitudinal magnetic field generated by a solenoid. The third tank contains a high-voltage generator based on the voltage-multiplying circuit.     

HIRFL—CSR实验环电子冷却装置调试

HIRFL-CSR实验环电子冷却装置采用了能够产生空心电子束的电子枪。弯曲螺线管内采用了静电偏转电极，冷却段采用了独立的高精度螺线管串联产生纵向磁场的设计。测量了沿离子束运动方向冷却段磁场分布及磁场平行度、电子枪和收集器性能、300kV高压电源相关参数。结果表明，此装置达到了预期的设计目标。: In CSRe electron cooling device， a special electron gun which can produce variable profile electron beam with different size and density distribution was adopted for decreasing ion losses. Electrostatic bending device was used for reducing electron beam losses and improving vacuum condition. The instability of the electron beam is suppressed because the secondary electrons from collector would come back to the collector in the same orbit finally. Longitudinal magnetic field with parallelism better than 10-4 was achieved by adopting of independent high precise solenoid coils at cooling section. In this case， the r.m.s deviations of the transverse magnetic field at cooling section in horizontal and vertical direction are 3.298×10-5 and 2.458×10-5 respectively. The characters of the gun and collector were investigated. The results were presented and indicate that it achieves the design purpose very well.     

集装箱检测系统用加速器电子枪的特性研究

 研究了固定式海关集装箱检测系统用9MeV电子行波直线加速器电子枪的结构特点和束流特性。该电子枪采用钪酸盐阴极,在灯丝电流为2.4A,阳极引出电压为-40kV的工作条件下,由电子枪发射到加速器入口处的脉冲电流强度为300mA,在加速器出口处,束斑截面小于φ2mm;打靶后,产生的X射线剂量率大于30cGy/(min× m)。电子枪的良好特性及束流强度保证了集装箱检测图像所需的高分辨率的要求。为保证满足更换电子枪时的安装要求,利用EGUN程序模拟计算了电子枪的结构及束流特性,为实际装配和使用提供了参考尺寸和调试参数。     

面源电子枪灯丝的热均匀性分析和设计

测试像增强器荧光屏的亮度均匀性，需要能够发射均匀电子的面源电子枪，设计面源电子枪要对灯丝各点发射的电子数量、电场分布、电子轨迹,以及均匀电子垂直轰击荧光屏几个方面进行理论分析和计算。指出在真空系统中面源电子枪灯丝的热均匀性是使灯丝各点发射的电子数量相等的先决条件，也是灯丝造型设计首先要解决的问题。在真空系统中，热辐射是影响面源电子枪灯丝各点温度的主要因素。参考相关资料，对热辐射均匀性进行了理论分析，推导出3种几何形状的热辐射公式；通过计算和比较，得出了锥状螺旋灯丝的热平衡较好的结论，为下一步电场分析和电子轨迹分析做好了准备。     

Booster synchrotron of NICA accelerator complex

NICA is a new accelerator complex being constructed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research; the main task of this complex is to perform collider experiments for ion beams up to uranium with energies of up to 3.5 × 3.5 GeV/nucleon. This complex includes an electron string ion source, a 6 MeV/nucleon linear accelerator, a booster, the Nuclotron, and a collider with an average luminosity of 10²⁷ cm² s^?1. The main tasks of the booster are to accumulate up to 4 × 10^{9 197}Au³²⁺ ions, to accelerate to 600 MeV/nucleon (sufficient enough energy for completely stripping nuclei), to reduce the requirements of vacuum conditions for the Nuclotron, and to form the necessary beam emittance using an electron cooling system. The specific features of the NICA booster and the requirements for the basic systems of the synchrotron and their parameters are presented in this paper.     

Study of the Electron Cooling System of the NICA Booster

The electron cooling system for the NICA booster has been under construction and tested over the last few years at the Institute of Nuclear Physics. The design of this setup and the results of tests are detailed.     

220 GHz折叠波导返波管束流光学系统设计和实验研究

本文介绍了220 GHz折叠波导行波管电子束流光学系统的设计过程。总体来讲,该系统可分为收敛性皮尔斯电子枪、 磁聚束段和单极降压收集极。对于一个工作在太赫兹频段的电真空器件而言,极其细长的束流孔道让电子注以较高的流通率穿过慢波结构变得十分困难。空间电荷效应,加工装配精度和热初速等原因都是限制流通率的重要原因。研发一个具有足够流通率的实用束流光学系统对于220 GHz折叠波导返波管的研制是迫切的且十分棘手的任务。通过理论方法和数值工具,系统的三个部分将先后被设计,以满足束波互作用分析提出的电子注要求。基于这样的设计和开展的误差分析,流通管样管成功封管并进行了初步测试。实验数据表明这样的束流光学系统可以产生15.4 kV,22 mA的电子注,并能以80%以上的流通率通过直径0.19 mm,长30 mm的束流管道。     

Design studies on a 500 kV DC gun photo-injector for the BXERL test facility

BXERL is a proposal for a test facility (Beijing X-ray Energy Recovery Linac), which requires its injector to provide an electron beam of 5 MeV, 77 pC/ bunch at a repetition rate of 130 MHz (average current of 10 mA). In this paper, we present the design of the injector, which consists of a 500 kV photocathode DC gun equipped with a GaAs cathode preparation device, a 1.3 GHz normal conducting RF buncher, two solenoids, and one cryomodule containing two 1.3 GHz 2-cell superconducting RF cavities as the energy booster. The detailed beam dynamics show that the injector can generate electron bunches with a RMS normalized emittance of 1.49 πmm·mrad, a bunch length of 0.67 mm, a beam energy of 5 MeV and an energy spread of 0.72%.     

Computer Simulation of Axis-Encircling Beams Generated by an Electron Gun with a Permanent Magnet System

Results from computer aided design of a novel electron gun generating axis-encircling beams are presented and discussed. Numerical experiments were performed by the new version of the software package GUN-MIG named GUN-MIG/CUSP. It is based on a self-consistent relativistic model and is developed as a problem oriented tool for analysis of electron-optical systems with magnetron injection guns (MIG) and electron guns with field reversal (cusp guns), forming axis-encircling beams. As a result of the simulations an electron-optical design of a novel electron gun with permanent magnet system was accomplished. The gun is expected to form high quality beams with small velocity spread and beam ripple. Parameters of the generated beams are appropriate for a prospective weakly relativistic high harmonic large orbit gyrotron (LOG). The development of such device is in progress now at the Research Center for Development of Far-Infrared Region (FIR Center) at Fukui University.     

上海同步光源定时系统物理设计

正在建造中的上海光源(SSRF)设计为一台能量为3.5GeV的第三代同步辐射光源, 其定时系统的物理设计使其能够满足储存环的不同运行模式, 如单束团模式、多束团模式、混合模式及Top-up运行模式, 定时系统具有高的稳定性和低的时间晃动. 基于EPICS控制系统的定时系统可提供精确的可编程序事件驱动信号序列, 根据不同需求提供电子枪、调制器、增强器和储存环高频, 注入引出及束测等设备的触发信号.     

Beam-cooling methods in the NICA project

The Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA) is a new accelerator complex under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) for experiments with colliding beams of heavy ions up to gold at energies as high as 4.5 × 4.5 GeV/u aimed at studying hot and dense strongly interacting nuclear matter and searching for possible indications of the mixed phase state and critical points of phase transitions. This facility comprises an ion source of the electron-string type, a 3-MeV/u linear accelerator, a 600-MeV/u superconducting booster synchrotron (Booster), a Nuclotron (upgraded superconducting synchrotron with a maximum energy of 4.5 GeV/u for ions with the charge-to-mass ratio Z/A = 1/3), and a collider consisting of two vertically separated superconducting rings with an average luminosity of 10²⁷ cm^?2 s^?1 in an energy range over 3.0 GeV/u. Beam cooling is supposed to be used in two NICA elements, the Booster, and the collider rings. The Booster is intended for the storage of ¹⁹⁷Au³¹⁺ ions to an intensity of about 4 × 10⁹ particles; their acceleration to the energy 600 MeV/u, which is sufficient for the complete stripping of nuclei (an increase in the injection energy and the charge state of ions makes the requirements for vacuum conditions in the Nuclotron less stringent); and the formation of the necessary beam emittance using the electron cooling system. Two independent beam-cooling systems, a stochastic one and an electron one, are supposed to be used in the collider. The parameters of the cooling systems, the optimum mode of operation for the collider, and the arrangement and design of the elements of the systems are discussed.     

加速器电子枪控制器的设计及其远程光纤通讯的实现

 介绍了合肥国家同步辐射实验室200 MeV电子直线加速器新型脉冲电子枪控制器的工作原理，以及I²C总线和嵌入式微控制器在电子枪控制器中的应用，详细分析了加热灯丝的数控电流源、引出电子束的数控电压源和脉冲电压源等模块的硬件实现，并给出了光纤通讯和后端微机控制软件的设计过程。该电子枪已成功应用于加速器的实际运行中，性能稳定，工作可靠，完全替代了以前的机械控制方式。     

Design studies on a 500 kV DC gun photo-injector for the BXERL test facility

BXERL is a proposal for a test facility(Beijing X-ray Energy Recovery Linac),which requires its injector to provide an electron beam of 5 MeV,77 pC/ bunch at a repetition rate of 130 MHz(average current of 10 mA).In this paper,we present the design of the injector,which consists of a 500 kV photocathodeDC gun equipped with a GaAs cathode preparation device,a 1.3 GHz normal conducting RF buncher,two solenoids,and one cryomodule containing two 1.3 GHz 2-cell superconducting RF cavities as the energy booster.The detailed beam dynamics show that the injector can generate electron bunches with a RMS normalized emittance of 1.49 7rmm-mrad,a bunch length of 0.67 mm,a beam energy of 5 MeV and an energy spread of 0.72%.     

Multi-spectral antireflection coating on zinc sulphide simultaneously effective in visible,eye safe laser wave length and MWIR region

In recent years multi-spectral device is steadily growing popularity. Multi-spectral antireflection coating effective in visible region for sighting system, laser wavelength for ranging and MWIR region for thermal system can use common objective/receiver optics highly useful for state of art thermal instrumentation. In this paper, design and fabrication of antireflection coating simultaneously effective in visible region (450–650 nm), Eye safe laser wave length (1540 nm) and MWIR region (3.6–4.9 μm) has been reported. Comprehensive search method of design was used and the number of layers in the design was optimised with lowest evaluated merit function studied with respect to various layers. Finally eight-layer design stack was established using hafnium oxide as high index layer and silicon-di-oxide as low index coating material combination. The multilayer stack had been fabricated by using electron beam gun evaporation system in Symphony 9 vacuum coating unit. During layer deposition the substrate was irradiated with End-Hall ion gun. The evaporation was carried out in presence of oxygen and layer thicknesses were measured with crystal monitor. The result achieved for the antireflection coating was 85% average transmission from 450 to 650 nm in visible region, 95% transmission at 1540 nm and 96% average transmission from 3.6 to 4.9 μm in MWIR region.     

BEPCII电子枪系统设计

 BEPCII改进工程需要更高流强的电子枪。新电子枪系统的物理设计、机械设计、控制系统设计等均进行了描述。电子枪的设计发射电流在脉宽为1 ns时大于10 A，重复频率50 Hz。将会采用脉冲电源来为电子枪提供最高200 kV的脉冲高压。在设计阶段，电子枪的几何结构和束流传输过程利用计算机模拟进行了优化。EGUN和DGUN的计算结果表明导流系数为0.22 mA·V^-3/2，电子枪出口的发射度为16 p·mm·mrad。PARMELA的模拟结果表明束流能顺利地传输至第一根加速管末端，捕获效率为67%，出口的均方根发射度为25 mm·mrad。基于EPICS平台的电子枪控制系统设计也已完成，提供了全新的双脉冲运行模式和2.5 μs长脉冲运行模式。     

毫米波行波管电子光学系统的设计

 利用基于虚边界元法的VBGUN程序和基于边界元法的MOM程序，对一折叠波导毫米波行波管的电子光学系统进行了设计。设计过程中使用计算相关性系数的方法调节参数，通过计算敏感性系数以考察加工误差带来的影响。设计过程显示：低导流系数、小束腰、高压缩比的毫米波电子枪的层流性与电极尺寸相关性很大，易受到加工误差的影响；聚束系统的设计难点在于轴上峰值磁感应强度要受到漂移管半径的限制，这一点可以通过提高工作电压和降低电流来平衡，因此它的设计必须与慢波结构的设计同时进行。     

绝缘体二次电子发射系数测量装置的研制

 成功研制了测量绝缘体二次电子发射系数的测量装置，该装置主要由栅控电子枪系统、真空系统和电子采集系统组成，测量装置产生的原电子流的能量范围为0.8~60 keV。采用单脉冲电子枪法，测量了原电子能量范围为0.8~45 keV的多晶MgO的二次电子发射系数。测量中，收集极(偏置盒)离材料表面设置为约35 mm，偏置电压设置为 45 V。测量得到：用磁控溅射法制备的MgO的二次电子发射系数最大值约为2.83，处于 2~26范围内，其对应的原电子能量约为980 eV。这表明该装置测量的绝缘体二次电子发射系数是可信的，但用磁控溅射法制备的MgO的二次电子发射系数较低，这可能是制备MgO时引入了过多的杂质在MgO二次电子发射体里面所引起的。     

Eddy current septum magnets for injection and extraction at SSRF

There are 6 in-vacuum eddy current septum magnets used for booster injection, extraction, and storage ring injection in SSRF. Special attention was paid to coils and their support designs because of the shock force they bear in the magnetic fields and the high heat which is hard to be dissipated in vacuum environment. For the storage ring magnets, good transverse homogeneity in the gap was achieved by careful design, precise machining and accurate assembly; and an extremely low leakage field on the stored beam is another key feature thanks to the high permeability Mu metal. Magnetic field measurement was conducted with both a point coil and a long integral coil, and the results agree well with the OPERA-2d/3d simulations. An inner tube is added to keep the continuity of impedance for the circulating beam with two RF finger flanges at each end. There is no vacuum separation between the inner tube and the magnet chamber. Sputter ion pumps integrated with NEG are used to acquire the UHV for the chamber.     

Efficient Low-Voltage Operation of a CW Gyrotron Oscillator at 233 GHz

The gyrotron oscillator is a source of high average power millimeter-wave through terahertz radiation. In this paper, we report low beam power and high-efficiency operation of a tunable gyrotron oscillator at 233 GHz. The low-voltage operating mode provides a path to further miniaturization of the gyrotron through reduction in the size of the electron gun, power supply, collector, and cooling system, which will benefit industrial and scientific applications requiring portability. Detailed studies of low-voltage operation in the TE(2) (,) (3) (,) (1) mode reveal that the mode can be excited with less than 7 W of beam power at 3.5 kV. During CW operation with 3.5-kV beam voltage and 50-mA beam current, the gyrotron generates 12 W of RF power at 233.2 GHz. The EGUN electron optics code describes the low-voltage operation of the electron gun. Using gun-operating parameters derived from EGUN simulations, we show that a linear theory adequately predicts the low experimental starting currents.     

飞秒电子衍射系统的设计

研发的超快电子衍射系统由超快电子枪、样品室、超快读出系统、电源系统,以及真空系统等组成,该超快电子衍射系统具有较高的时间分辩能力和较强的探测能力.光电阴极是蒸镀于MgFB2窗上的35 nm的银膜,该阴极对266 nm的紫外光比较敏感,有较高的量子效率,又具有很好的化学稳定性.用短磁聚焦系统来实现对光电子的聚焦,有两对偏转板,其中的一对在测量时间脉宽时用作扫描板.用双MCP探测器来增强电子图像的强度,其增益在104以上,具有单电子探测能力.系统的总时间脉宽设计为358 fs.