The ALTO project at IPN Orsay

In order to probe neutron-rich radioactive noble gases produced by photofission, a PARRNe 1 experiment (Production d’Atomes Radioactifs Riches en Neutrons) has been carried out at CERN. The incident electron beam of 50 MeV was delivered by the LIL machine (LEP Injector Linac). The experiment allowed one to compare under the same conditions two production methods of radioactive noble gases: fission induced by fast neutrons and photofission. The obtained results show that the use of the electrons is a promisingmode to obtain intense neutron-rich ion beams. Thereafter, with the success of this photofission experiment, a conceptual design for the installation at IPN Orsay of a 50-MeV electron accelerator close to the PARRNe 2 device has been worked out: the ALTO project. This work has started within a collaboration between IPNO, LAL, and CERN groups.     

POLAREX Study of polarized exotic nuclei at millikelvin temperatures

POLAREX (POLARization of EXotic nuclei) is a new facility for the study of nuclear magnetic moments and decay modes of exotic nuclei using the established On-Line Nuclear Orientation (OLNO) method. A radioactive beam of interest is implanted into a ferromagnetic host foil held at a temperature of order 10mK in a ³He - ⁴He dilution refrigerator. The foil is magnetized by an applied magnetic field and the nuclear spins become polarized through the internal hyperfine field. The angular distribution of decay products from the polarized sample is measured. Accurate values of nuclear moment are obtained by NMR. The new facility will have access to neutron-rich nuclides produced at the ALTO facility (Linear Accelerator at Orsay Tandem) by fission induced by electrons from the linear electron accelerator. Basic concepts and initial tests are outlined.     

不同入射角度下强流脉冲电子束能量沉积剖面和束流传输系数模拟计算

 强流脉冲电子束在材料中的能量沉积剖面、能量沉积系数和束流传输系数受其入射角的影响很大，理论计算了0.5~2.0MeV的电子束以不同的入射角在Al材料中的能量沉积剖面和能量沉积系数，并且还计算了0.4~1.4MeV电子束以不同入射角穿透不同厚度C靶的束流传输系数。计算结果表明，随着入射角的增大，靶材表面层单位质量中沉积的能量增大，电子在靶材料中穿透深度减小，能量沉积系数减小，相应的束流传输系数也减小；能量为0.5~2.0MeV的电子束当入射角在60°~70°时在材料表面层单位质量中沉积的能量较大。     

光学渡越辐射理论及其在直线感应加速器脉冲电子束诊断中的应用

匀速运动的带电粒子在穿过具有不同介电常数的两种媒质界面时要产生所谓光学渡越辐射。该辐射在粒子的入射平面上呈偏振行为;从辐射强度的角分布可以确定入射粒子的能量。在入射到双膜系统的情况下,由于干涉的发生,在第二膜前表面的强度角分布有振荡行为。利用这些现象,可对脉冲电子束包络半径、束电流密度的横向分布,束能量以及横向散角进行测量,依照这一原理在各LIA加速器上进行的脉冲电子束参数测量,获得的有效数据极大地提高了加速器的调试效率。     

神龙二号多脉冲电子束束参数的时间分辨测量技术

神龙二号是一台三脉冲强流脉冲电子束直线感应加速器,就其多脉冲的电子束束参数的测量而言,基本要求是单个脉冲可分辨,进一步的要求是脉冲内时间可分辨。基于光学渡越辐射原理及瞬态发射度测量系统原理,发展了一种束斑与发散角可以分开测量的光学布局结构,结合多台高速分幅相机,成功研制了一套完整的多脉冲电子束束参数的测量系统,其特点是灵活的组合测量方式,全面满足了神龙二号复杂艰难的调试及参数测量工作要求。测量系统最高时间分辨测量能力达到约2 ns的水平,单个脉冲可以获得至少8个时间分辨的束参数测量结果。     

导引磁场控制相对论速调管放大器电子束收集的方法

 通过改变磁场位形,利用粒子模拟方法,研究了相对论速调管放大器（RKA）中电子束收集位置对器件效率和工作稳定性的影响。合适的电子束收集位置对增加输出腔区束波作用强度、减小输出腔区强流电子束的空间电荷势能以及减少RKA中反射电子数量非常有利。对一个工作频率2.85 GHz的RKA的电子束收集方式进行了改进,在电子束参数为510 keV和8.1 kA,注入微波功率500 kW和导引磁场1.5 T时,模拟得到了1.4 GW的微波输出,效率33.7%,增益33.8 dB,改进电子束收集方式之前的模拟结果为输出功率1.1 GW,效率为26.3%。利用Surperfish设计了改进收集方式后所需的磁场位形,并导入粒子模拟程序进行了模拟,实现了对电子束收集位置的有效控制,输出效率为32%。     

Investigation on the pseudospark electron beam and its applicationfor the generation of soft X-rays

An investigation on the pseudospark electron beam is presented in this paper. Time-integrated and time-resolved pictures of the X-rays generated by the electron beam are taken with a special X-ray pinhole camera. They show the spatial and temporal development of the pseudospark electron beam. Time-integrated pictures indicate spatial instabilities of the electron beam caused by a bent or broadened electron beam due to space charge effects. The results of the time-resolved measurements show X-ray emission only during two short periods at the very beginning of the discharge before the beam current reaches its maximum. Only during these periods does the electron beam contain high-energy electrons. In between these two periods the energy of the beam electrons decreases because of a space-charge-limited beam transport     

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.     

HIRFL-CSRm冷却束流寿命

实验研究了HIRFL-CSRm中电子冷却装置对C6+,Ar15+两种束流寿命的影响。首先,通过对比实验的测量确定电子冷却可以有效提高束流寿命;其次,探究了电子冷却装置中的各项参数（主要是电子束密度分布、流强、能量、绝热展开因子）是如何影响束流寿命的,通过改变电子束参数,测量束流寿命的变化趋势和规律,并且结合电子冷却相关理论对实验结果给予解释,最终通过实验优化和确定最佳的冷却装置参数,使束流在HIRFL-CSRm上获得了较高的寿命,从而提高HIRFL-CSRm束流累积过程中的流强增益。     

微波电子回旋共振等离子体阴极电子束的实验研究

介绍了实验室研制的微波电子回旋共振(ECR)等离子体阴极电子束系统及初步研究结果，该系统包括微波ECR 等离子体源、电子束引出极、聚焦线圈等。通过测量水冷靶电流和靶上的束斑尺寸，实验研究了微波ECR 等离子体阴极电子束的流强、聚束性能等随电子束系统工作条件的变化。结果表明：微波输入功率越高、引出电压越高，引出电子束流强越大；工作气压对电子束流强的影响较复杂，随气压增加呈现出先降低后升高的特点；在7×10⁻⁴Pa 的极低气压下电子束流强可达75mA，引出电压9kV；能量利用率可达0.6；调整聚焦线圈的驱动电流，电子束的束斑直径从20mm 减小到13mm，电子束流强未有明显变化。     

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The generation and control of microwave electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma cathode electron beam is studied experimentally. A complete set of discharge, electron beam extraction, focusing and measuring system was set up. The characteristics and performance of microwave ECR plasmas as electron beam extraction source were studied by measuring the current of water cooling target and the beam spot size on the target. Experimental results indicated that both microwave input power and accelerating voltage are conducive to improving electron beam current. The influence of gas pressure on the electron beam current was complex. With the increase of gas pressure, the electron beam current is characterized by decreasing first and then increasing. The extracted electron current of microwave ECR plasma cathode can reach 75mA at gas pressure of 7×10⁻⁴Pa, and the energy of the electron beam can reach 9keV. The energy utilization can reach 0.6. By adjusting the current of the focusing coil, the diameter of electron beam spot is reduced from 20mm to 13mm and the electron beam current keeps the value unchanged.     

Generation of runaway electron subnanosecond pulses in nitrogen and helium at a voltage of 25 kV across the gap

The formation of a runaway electron beam in helium and nitrogen at a generator voltage of 25 kV is studied experimentally. At low generator voltages, an ultrashort avalanche electron beam (UAEB) is shown to form at the flat top of the voltage pulse and its delay time relative to the leading edge of the pulse may attain several tens of nanoseconds. The conditions of runaway electron beam generation depend on the pressure in the gas-filled diode. The FWHM of the beam current varies from 200 ps to several nanoseconds. Beam electron energy distributions at different pressures are obtained. It is found that, if the gap is preionized by an additional source, the UAEB generation conditions break.     

电子束曝光机偏转系统及可动物镜分析

电子束大扫描场偏转系统设计中 ,像差的确定是一个必须解决的实际问题。以SDS 3电子束曝光机的磁复合偏转系统为基础 ,以双通道扫描原理进行扫描 ,分析了像差与电子束主轨迹的关系。给出了可动物镜的条件 ,并利用这一条件分析电子束最佳轨迹的结构和方法。并使用计算机辅助设计研究电子束曝光机聚焦偏转系统的结构。由该电子束曝光机试验结果表明 ,复合系统结构简单紧凑 ,像差小而可以不用动态校正。采用矢量描写电子轨迹 ,以积分式表示像差。以 0 .0 0 5rad半张角 ,5× 10 -5的高压纹波 ,5 0mm的像距 ,10mm× 10mm扫描场的边脚处 ,使动态校正前的总像差为 0 .0 3μm。     

Early out-of-equilibrium beam-plasma evolution

We solve analytically the out-of-equilibrium initial stage that follows the injection of a radially finite electron beam into a plasma at rest and test it against particle-in-cell simulations. For initial large beam edge gradients and not too large beam radius, compared to the electron skin depth, the electron beam is shown to evolve into a ring structure. For low enough transverse temperatures, the filamentation instability eventually proceeds and saturates when transverse isotropy is reached. The analysis accounts for the variety of very recent experimental beam transverse observations.     

The action of an electron beam on dust structures in a plasma

The action of an electron beam on ordered dust structures in glow and low-pressure RF discharges was studied experimentally. The electron beam produces destruction and dynamic displacement of the dust structure. In the center of a dust structure, an electron beam with a low electron energy (tens of eV) at currents up to 1 mA caused structural disordering and “melting” in the region of its action but did not excite external crystal regions. Local action of an electron beam with a high electron energy (25 keV) and a beam current above 10 mA caused deformation of the whole dust structure and shifted it in the horizontal direction so that it was carried away from the RF discharge zone. The effect of dust structure displacements can be used to locally remove particles from a plasma.     

利用切伦科夫辐射进行电子束发散角及分布概况的测量技术研究

针对切伦科夫辐射特点,采用厚度尽量小的石英薄片作为转换靶,并将电子束以切伦科夫辐射角入射转换靶的形式构成一种电子束发散角分布的测量布局,并基于焦平面成像原理,研制了相应的电子束发散角光学测量系统。在强流脉冲直线感应加速器上完成了装置研制和测试工作,显示了电子束发散角分布测量系统可以获得电子束一定方向上的散角分布概况,测量结果具有一定的可信度,具有装置结构简单、数据处理难度低及速度快等特点。     

Theoretical investigation of the bunching of an electron beam in relativistic power amplifiers

The modern approach to designing an injector for the driver of a two-beam accelerator is based on the use of a bunched electron beam. The results of simulation and comparison of the processes leading to bunching of a relativistic electron beam in a free-electron laser and in a traveling-wave tube at low electron beam energies are discussed. The simulation and existing experimental results for bunching of an electron beam in a free-electron laser are compared. Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 69, 98–102 (February 1999)     

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.     

Beam lifetime measurement and analysis in Indus-2 electron storage ring

In this paper, the beam lifetime measurement and its theoretical analysis are presented using measured vacuum pressure and applied radio frequency (RF) cavity voltage in Indus-2 electron storage ring at 2 GeV beam energy. Experimental studies of the effect of RF cavity voltage and bunched beam filling pattern on beam lifetime are also presented. An equation of stable beam current decay is evolved and this equation closely follows the observed beam current decay pattern. It shows that the beam is stable and the beam current decay is due to the beam–residual gas interaction (vacuum lifetime) and electron–electron interaction within a bunch (Touschek lifetime). The estimated vacuum, Touschek and total beam lifetimes from analytical formulations are also compared with the measured beam lifetime.     

辐照用紧凑连续波电子加速器的物理设计

为适应工业电子加速器需求增多的现状,提出了一种新型的结构紧凑的连续波电子加速器,运行频率为180MHz。依靠置于加速腔外的多个偏转磁铁,使电子束多次穿越加速腔,从而得到持续的加速。设计过程中,用CST软件对谐振加速腔进行了优化,用Parmela软件模拟了束流的粒子动力学。粒子纵向稳定度和横向聚焦也通过模拟进行了分析和验证。结果显示:此种新型加速器能得到9MeV,100kW的稳定电子束流。