Eccentricity of the electron beam in a gyrotron cavity

Dependence of the coupling of the electron beam and RF field in a gyrotron cavity on eccentricity of the electron beam is studied.     

Development of a fast risetime pulsed relativistic electron beam generator for the excitation of shorter wavelength lasers

We have developed a compact and simple high current relativistic electron beam (REB) generator for the excitation of lasers in the shorter wavelength region. This REB generator mainly consists of a Tesla transformer-type high-voltage generator, N₂ gas insulated Blumlein-type pulse-forming line and cold-cathode electron gun to generate 800 keV, 12 kA pulsed electron beams with 6 ns current duration and approximately 4 ns current risetime. The design and operational characteristics along with discussions of the excitation capabilities of the gas laser media are presented in this paper.     

回旋电子束横纵速度比测试技术

摘要:通过对回旋电子束形成的电位和电场分布,推导出电子束横纵速度比测量的计算式.提出将电子束作传输线内导体等效,采用陶瓷电容分压器来测量速度比的方法.介绍了该测量装置的设计和加工工艺,及陶瓷电容分压器的标定方法和结果分析,并介绍了初步的原理性实验结果.该测试方法装置简单,测试电子束横纵速度比时不会破坏电子束的特性,能够...     

Experimental studies of gyrotron electron beam systems

In order to provide electron beams of powerful gyrotrons, magnetron-injection guns operating in the regime of the temperature limited current are used. The electron beam quality and gyrotron performances are defined both by the cathode emission processes and the processes occurring in the electron beam during its formation and transportation. The results of measurements of the energy spectrum and velocity spread of the gyrotron electron beam in different regimes are given. Experimental data on the parameter of efficient emission inhomogeneity for different regimes are presented, as well as the dependencies of electron beam parameters on efficient inhomogeneity of the cathode     

Interaction of a relativistic electron beam with a spiral waveguide

The nonlinear period in the interaction of a relativistic electron beam (REB) with an electromagnetic wave in a spiral waveguide at the stage of saturation is investigated for a Cherenkov interaction mechanism. On the basis of the kinetic equation and laws of energy and momentum conservation, analytical relations are obtained, allowing the efficiency of excitation and amplification of the electromagnetic wave to be studied using REB in a retarding structure. The results of the analysis are in good agreement with the data of actual and numerical experiments.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 5, pp. 31–36, May, 1988.It remains to thank É. A. Perel'shtein, Yu. I. Aleksakhin, and their colleagues for discussion of the results.     

Space charge effects in a gyrotron employing a solid electron beam

The influence of space charge forces on the performance of a single cacity gyrotron oscillator which uses a solid electron beam was investigated. It was found that space charge effects cause a large efficiency degradation as the beam current is increased, if the other experimental parameters are unchanged. A small increase in the magnetic field, however, can restore the efficiency to higher values.This research was supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.     

The dissipative instability of a relativistic electron beam

The theory of the wall instabilities of surface waves excited by an electron beam is developed. Their classification, linear, quasilinear and nonlinear theory is given. It is shown that dissipative instabilities convert practically all the energy lost by the beam into the heating of the lossy walls confining the beam.     

Anomalous scattering of a relativistic electron beam in a beam created plasma

Measurements of the velocity angular distribution of a relativistic electron beam (0.8 MV, 6 kA, 150 ns) after propagation through hydrogen gas are presented. At a pressure of 25 Pa scattering of the beam electrons into a preferential angular interval is observed. At 190 Pa anomalously large scattering is observed, up to an angular width of 90°, during about 30 ns.     

Removal of nitrogen oxide in spatially isolated chamber by pulsed intense relativistic electron beam

Nitrogen oxide (NO/sub x/) in a chamber spatially isolated from beam source has been removed by a pulsed, intense, relativistic electron beam (PIREB). The chamber is filled up with dry-air-balanced NO/sub x/, and is irradiated by the PIREB (2 MeV, 2.2 kA, 85 ns) passing through 1.6-m-long atmosphere. The NO/sub x/ concentration decreases from 88 to 25 ppm by ten shots of PIREB.     

Developing a high-current relativistic millimeter-wave gyrotron

A relativistic gyrotron fed by a 500 keV, 2 kA helical electron flow in the TE and TM modes is simulated on the basis of a self-consistent system of time-dependent equations with a non-fixed field structure and using a three-dimensional version of the KARAT PIC code. The possibility of reaching an output power 200–250 MW at a wavelength of 10 mm is shown.     

Diocotron instability of the electron beam in the drift tube of a gyrotron

A cold fluid model is used to investigate instabilities associated with a velocity shear due to the self fields of a relativistic electron beam inside the beam tunnel of a gyrotron. General statements concerning the stability of an electron beam like the frequency and the growth rate are possible. The growth is expressed as a length that can be compared with the geometry in the gun-tube-resonator system.     

A submillimeter gyrotron with a pulsed magnetic field

Pulse solenoids seem promising for sumbillimeter wave generation in gyrotrons. In this paper a single-pulse submillimeter gyrotron with a pulsed magnetic field is described. At the wavelength 0.8 mm the output power 120 KW with the efficiency 15% has been obtained.     

Studying the characteristics of scintillation counters in a beam of relativistic particles

In this work, the results of the measurements of characteristics of 40-cm and 2-m scintillation counters irradiated by a particle beam with a momentum of 7 GeV/c from the accelerator of the Institute for High Energy Physics are presented. The scintillators used in counters are BC-404 and BC-408 scintillators. The counters are viewed from both ends by R1828-01 photomultiplier tubes. The PMT signal spectra are well described by a convolution of the Landau and Gaussian distributions. Their width is determined mainly by fluctuations of ionization energy losses. The time distributions of the signals obey the Gaussian law. For the 40-cm counter, the time resolution is σ(T) = 88 ps; for the 2-m counter, it varies from 120–160 ps in its center to ~100 ps near the end.     

大回旋电子束双磁会切电子枪的设计

 分析了Ka波段二次谐波回旋行波管双磁会切电子枪的理论模型,计算了电子枪的设计参数;采用EGUN软件进行模拟,设计出了产生大回旋电子束的双磁会切电子枪。该枪电压为70 kV,电流为3.35 A,电子束横纵速度比为1.62,速度零散为4.2%。给出了电子束速度比、速度零散沿轴线的分布,进而讨论了阳极电压对电子束性能的影响,结果表明选择适当的阳极电压和阴极磁场对得到好的电子束参量作用明显。     

Passage of a high-current relativistic electron beam through matter

A solution is presented for the problem of passage of a high-current relativistic electron beam through matter in the stationary case with one-dimensional geometry. The system of equations describing the passage of the beam consists of the kinetic equation for fast electrons, which considers the effect of the electric field on the magnitude and direction of particle momentum, the equations for the field produced by the space charge generated by thermalized electrons, and relations connecting the conductivity of the medium to the radiation field. Higher-order perturbation theory is used for the solution. The solutions reveal that the distribution of expended energy, thermalized electrons, and other properties of the flow are highly dependent on the density of the incident flux and the conductivity of the medium. It will be shown that linear transfer theory may be applied to calculation of the passage of high-current beams through matter over a wide range of currents and conductivities, if the barrier thickness does not exceed one-half the path length, but cannot be used for calculation of passage through large-thickness barriers, i.e., with thickness comparable to the electron free path length.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 67–74, September, 1979.The author thanks A. N. Didenko and A. M. Kol'chuzhkin for their evaluation of the study.