Generation and control of a powerful electron-beam current in an accelerator based on a secondary-emission source and its application

An electron accelerator in which magnetron guns with secondary-emission cathodes of two types are used as a particle source is described. The electron-beam parameters are investigated in an electron energy range of 20–150 keV at a pulse length of 10–50 μs. Results of target irradiation by an electron beam are represented. The target surface structure is studied by the metallographic method, and the microhardness and strength of zirconium materials are measured. The possibility of beam current control by factors of 2.5–3.5 with various methods is shown.     

电子束加速器维纳尔的研究

由于电子束理论上可聚成直径小于1nm的束斑,易于控制,在超大规模集成电路掩模制造中起的重要作用,目前仍无法用其它方法所代替.以SDS-3电子束设备的电子枪为基础,讨论了双曲凹面加速器维纳尔(外敷碱土金属氧化物盖)的电子轨迹与能量分布.通过这一维纳尔电子被送达硅片靶心(置于光阑前).最后给出了刻蚀硅片的束斑和加速器维纳尔的图.     

Simulation of radiation energy losses by channeled relativistic electrons in a crystal

A computer code is developed to calculate the radiation energy losses (RELs) of electrons during both 〈100〉 axis and (100) plane channeling in a thin Si crystal. A computer simulation of these losses is carried out by taking the initial angular divergence of the beam into account, and the REL dependences on the angle of electron entry into the crystal are obtained for both axial and planar channeling (orientational dependences). The calculations are carried out in connection with experiments on the interaction of 20–255 MeV electrons with crystals conducted at the SAGA Light Source linear accelerator (Tosu, Saga, Japan). The simulation results show the possibility of using the orientational dependence of the RELs of channeled electrons in thin crystals to diagnose the initial angular divergence of the electron beam and to orient crystals.     

Sustained kilowatt lasing in a free-electron laser with same-cell energy recovery

Jefferson Laboratory's kW-level infrared free-electron laser utilizes a superconducting accelerator that recovers about 75% of the electron-beam power. In achieving first lasing, the accelerator operated "straight ahead" to deliver 38-MeV, 1.1-mA cw current for lasing near 5 &mgr;m. The waste beam was sent directly to a dump while producing stable operation at up to 311 W. Utilizing the recirculation loop to send the electron beam back to the linac for energy recovery, the machine has now recovered cw average currents up to 5 mA, and has lased cw with up to 1720 W output at 3.1 &mgr;m.     

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     

Experimental and Monte Carlo absolute characterization of a medical electron beam using a magnetic spectrometer

The knowledge of the absolute energy distributions of the particles emitted from a clinical accelerator is important for the evaluation of Monte Carlo simulations developed for treatment planning. In this paper, an original approach is presented which allows to measure the absolute energy distribution of the electron beam delivered by a Varian 21Ex medical accelerator. The electron beam was characterized at the isocenter with calibrated image plates covering the exit window of a magnetic spectrometer. The characteristics of the electron beam emitted from an effective source have been inferred from the measurements using the Geant4 Monte Carlo code. The contribution of direct electrons to the absolute depth-dose curve in a water phantom is estimated.     

基于蒙特卡罗方法的XHA600D医用电子直线加速器的入射电子束参数研究

使用蒙特卡罗方法研究入射电子束参数对XHA600D医用电子直线加速器产生的剂量分布的影响,并确定优化的入射电子束参数。根据厂商提供的XHA600D加速器治疗头的几何、材料参数,使用蒙特卡罗程序EGSnrc对不同的入射电子束参数进行模拟并记录其在水模体中产生的剂量分布,将模拟结果与测量结果进行比较。模拟的入射电子束参数包括平均能量、径向强度分布、角度展宽和能量展宽;实验测量数据包括4 cm×4 cm、10 cm×10 cm、30 cm×30 cm射野条件下的百分深度剂量与离轴剂量。结果表明当入射电子束的平均能量为6 MeV、径向强度的半高宽(Full Width at Half Maximum, FWHM)为0.25 cm、角度展宽为0.15°时,模拟结果和测量结果吻合非常好。这些参数可以作为建立适用于XHA600D加速器的TPS(Treatment Planning System)剂量计算模型的基础参数。     

Study of the acoustic field produced by a 50-MeV electron beam in water

For the first time, a detailed space-time dependence of acoustic pressure produced by a 50-MeV electron beam in water are obtained at the electron accelerator of Moscow State University. Measurements are performed at 100 points taken along one line parallel to the beam axis and spaced 6.5 cm apart from this axis. The 2D (time-distance) patterns display two paths corresponding to signals from two sound sources: a cylindrical acoustic antenna produced by the electron beam and the entrance cap separating the water and air media.     

高发射电流密度二极管实验研究

介绍了一种径向绝缘的高发射电流密度二极管的结构及其磁场系统,该二极管采用爆炸发射方式,阴极为高密度热解石墨,绝缘子为氧化铝陶瓷,并采用阴极屏蔽技术,阴极尖端处的最高场强达2.470 MV/cm。同时利用CHP01加速器实验平台对这种二极管的发射特性进行了实验研究。其输出电子束参数达到：电压600 kV、电流12 kA、脉冲宽度45 ns、脉冲重复频率100 Hz、阴极电子发射密度达17 kA/cm2。电压不稳定度小于3%,电流不稳定度小于5%。研究了在高发射电流密度下二极管重复频率稳定运行问题及引导磁场对二极管输出束流及特性阻抗的影响,结果表明：二极管输出束流随磁场增大而有所减小并趋于稳定;特性阻抗则随磁场的增大而增大,当磁场强度达到临界磁场以上时,特性阻抗也趋于稳定。     

CSRm束流径向和轴向振荡的耦合

介绍了由于磁铁的安装误差和螺线管的存在而造成的束流径向和轴向的耦合，以及耦合对束流稳定的影响。结合CSRm结构的典型参数分析得出:二极磁铁和四极磁铁在纵向角安装偏差为-0.5~0.5 mrad；有螺线管存在的情况下，工作点落在和共振线时，将导致束流不稳定而大量损失，落在差共振线时，束流稳定。通过模拟计算发现:螺线管产生的耦合远大于磁铁的纵向角安装偏差产生的耦合。     

Spectrum reconstruction of a nanosecond electron beam from the data on its extinction in thin foils

A possibility of reconstructing the electron beam spectrum from the dependence of beam extinction on foil thickness is demonstrated. The electron energy distributions are calculated using Tikhonov’s regularization of the Fredholm integral equation with the least number of a priori assumptions on the beam spectrum shape. The spectra experimentally obtained in a vacuum diode loaded by nanosecond voltage pulses are reconstructed and analyzed.     

Polysilicon dry etching by a large-area electron beam

Dry etching using a novel large-area electron beam has been obtained on polysilicon over SiO₂/Si samples in the pressure range 0.1–0.4 Torr. The dependence of etching rate upon electron-beam power density, total pressure of the CF₄/He mixture, and the ratio of CF₄/He pressure has been determined. An etching rate of 150 nm/min without any addition of O₂ has been achieved with a low-energy density electron beam for poly-Si dry etching.     

重复脉冲强流电子束源长时间稳定运行实验研究

 简要阐述了脉冲变压器型重复脉冲强流电子束加速器CHP01的组成、主要特点及工作原理,利用设计的重复脉冲强流电子束源进行了长时间运行实验研究,实验结果达到：在100 Hz重复频率下连续运行5 s,脉冲变压器能稳定输出电压1.15 MV,强流束二极管输出电压超过800 kV、束流7 kA、脉冲宽度45 ns,阴极电子发射密度超过10 kA/cm²,且运行稳定可靠。利用该电子束源进行了X波段类周期慢波结构微波器件实验研究,在50 Hz重复频率下连续运行5 s,输出微波功率超过1 GW,脉冲宽度大于25 ns。     

Instantaneous electron beam emittance measurement system based on the optical transition radiation principle

One kind of instantaneous electron beam emittance measurement system based on the optical transition radiation principle and double imaging optical method has been set up. It is mainly adopted in the test for the intense electron-beam produced by a linear induction accelerator. The system features two characteristics. The first one concerns the system synchronization signal triggered by the following edge of the main output waveform from a Blumlein switch. The synchronous precision of about 1 ns between the electron beam and the image capture time can be reached in this way so that the electron beam emittance at the desired time point can be obtained. The other advantage of the system is the ability to obtain the beam spot and beam divergence in one measurement so that the calculated result is the true beam emittance at that time, which can explain the electron beam condition. It provides to be a powerful beam diagnostic method for a 2.5 kA, 18.5 MeV, 90 ns (FWHM) electron beam pulse produced by Dragon I. The ability of the instantaneous measurement is about 3 ns and it can measure the beam emittance at any time point during one beam pulse. A series of beam emittances have been obtained for Dragon I. The typical beam spot is 9.0 mm (FWHM) in diameter and the corresponding beam divergence is about 10.5 mrad.     

Gyrokinetic Analysis of Influence of Electron Beam Eccentricity on Operation of Higher-Order Mode in a Coaxial Cavity Gyrotron

A gyrokinetic analysis is presented to the influence of the electron beam eccentricity on the power and starting current of a coaxial cavity gyrotron, which operates in a higher-order mode TE_{31, 17, 1} with a frequency of 165 GHz. It is found that the starting current becomes larger because of the existence of the electron-beam eccentricity. Especially, the power will be decreased substantially by the electron beam eccentricity, for example, down to 93% of the power without any eccentricity even if the eccentricity is 1% of the outer conductor radius. The acceptable range of the electron beam voltage and operating magnetic field for the establishment of the electromagnetic oscillation is narrowed by the electron-beam eccentricity.     

Nonlinear surface processes under nonequilibrium TiNi activation by a pulsed electron beam

Nonlinear processes involved in oxygen diffusion from the adsorption layer into the bulk of an alloy exposed to a low-energy high-current pulsed electron beam are investigated in the framework of a mathematical model accounting for nonequilibrium activation and melting of the irradiated material. An example is a TiNi alloy. The model includes heat, diffusion, and kinetic equations, with initial and boundary conditions corresponding to electron-beam treatment of the alloy. Kinetic parameters are estimated. The time and space distributions of the TiNi temperature and oxygen concentration for a varying maximum pulse power density and pulse duration are calculated. The heating and diffusion depths are determined. The results obtained with and without regard to the activation effect are compared. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 3, pp. 8–15, March 2007.     

High-Current Electron-Beam Transport in the LIA-5 Linear Induction Accelerator

Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters - The issue of high-current electron-beam transport in the LIA-5 accelerator is discussed. The results of numerical simulation of beam transport in the...     

Nonlinear Control of Beam Halo-Chaos in Accelerator-Driven Clean Nuclear Power System

Beam halo-chaos in high-current accelerators has become a key concerned issue because it can cause excessive radioactivity from the accelerators therefore significantly limits their applications in industry, medicine, and national defense. Some general engineering methods for chaos control have been developed in recent years, but they generally are unsuccessful for beam halo-chaos suppression due to many technical constraints. Beam halo-chaos is essentially a spatiotemporal chaotic motion within a high power proton accelerator. In this paper, some efficient nonlinear control methods, including wavelet function feedback control as a special nonlinear control method, are proposed for controlling beam halo-chaos under five kinds of the initial proton beam distributions (i.e., Kapchinsky-Vladimirsky, full Gauss,3-sigma Gauss, water-bag, and parabola distributions) respectively. Particles-in-cell simulations show that after control of beam halo-chaos, the beam halo strength factor is reduced to zero, and other statistical physical quantities of beam halo-chaos are doubly reduced. The methods we developed is very effective for suppression of proton beam halo-chaos in a periodic focusing channel of accelerator. Some potential application of the beam halo-chaos control in experiments is finally pointed out.     

Damage of beryllium surface under irradiation with a high-current electron beam

Radiation damage of a beryllium surface by a high-current electron beam at the GSEP-3 accelerator is considered. The degree of damage of beryllium samples has been determined. The temperature fields inside the sample and the distributions of thermal stresses have been calculated. The reasons for beryllium surface cracking formation have been found. The concentrations of point defects have been calculated. The possible reasons for an increase in microhardness of the irradiated beryllium surface layer are discussed.     

Simulation on buildup of electron cloud in a proton circular accelerator

Electron cloud interaction with high energy positive beams are believed responsible for various undesirable effects such as vacuum degradation, collective beam instability and even beam loss in high power proton circular accelerators. An important uncertainty in predicting electron cloud instability lies in the detailed processes of the generation and accumulation of the electron cloud. The simulation on the build-up of electron cloud is necessary to further studies on beam instability caused by electron clouds. The China Spallation Neutron Source(CSNS) is an intense proton accelerator facility now being built, whose accelerator complex includes two main parts: an H-linac and a rapid cycling synchrotron(RCS). The RCS accumulates the 80 Me V proton beam and accelerates it to 1.6 Ge V with a repetition rate of 25 Hz. During beam injection with lower energy, the emerging electron cloud may cause serious instability and beam loss on the vacuum pipe. A simulation code has been developed to simulate the build-up,distribution and density of electron cloud in CSNS/RCS.