Experiments on the formation of an intense helical electron beam under conditions of picking-up of the electrons reflected from the magnetic mirror

We propose a method of increasing the pitch factor and decreasing the spread of rotational velocities of helical electron beams (HEBs) formed in nonadiabatic magnetron-injection guns of gyroresonant devices. The method is based on the effect of a special diaphragm mounted at the starting point of the transport channel on the process of formation of the laminar electron beam. The diaphragm located at one of the trajectory minima has such a diameter that it cannot be bent around by electrons with minimum rotational velocities. Such electrons land on it, whereas the remaining electrons pass further, moving in an increasing magnetic field. Then the electrons with the maximum rotational velocities reflect from the magnetic mirror adiabatically and land on the other side of the same diaphragm. Thus, the electron beam in the cavity contains electrons with a smaller resulting spread of rotational velocities. In the region of the HEB formation, the accumulation of the space charge of reflected electrons is eliminated, and the shielding of the electric field at the cathode is reduced, which eventually leads to an increase in the HEB pitch factor. Using such a diaphragm in the regime of current limitation by the space charge, the HEB with a high pitch factor (about 1.4) and a velocity spread acceptable for gyrotron applications (lower than 30%) was formed. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 785–792, September 2007.     

Acceleration of nonmonoenergetic electron bunches injected into a wake wave

The trapping and acceleration of nonmonoenergetic electron bunches in a wake field wave excited by a laser pulse in a plasma channel is studied. Electrons are injected into the region of the wake wave potential maximum at a velocity lower than the phase velocity of the wave. The paper analyzes the grouping of bunch electrons in the energy space emerging in the course of acceleration under certain conditions of their injection into the wake wave and minimizing the energy spread for such electrons. The factors determining the minimal energy spread between bunch electrons are analyzed. The possibility of monoenergetic acceleration of electron bunches generated by modern injectors in a wake wave is analyzed.     

Effect of electron velocity spread on gyro-peniotron efficiency

The paper describes the influence of the velocity spread of the electrons on the interaction efficiency and on other operational characteristics in the gyro-peniotron oscillator. Numerical simulation shows a drastic efficiency reduction from more than 45% to less than 30% with an electron velocity spread of 10% for a 35GHz, TE₀₃ mode gyro-peniotron operating at the third harmonic. The operation ranges of the device parameters at a defined efficiency level are also decreased when the velocity spread of the electrons increases.     

Generation of beams of charged particles with transverse energy

The paper describes the operation and construction of an electron gun designed to form beams with variable transverse energy and a variable spread of magnetic moments. Transverse energy is acquired by the electrons as the beam passes through a weakly non-adiabatic magnetic step, and in an adiabatic motion through a growing magnetic field. The small spread of magnetic moments of the beam electrons is achieved by fulfilling the so-called focusing conditions which ensure that the spread of moments resulting from different initial radii of the particles is compensated by their initial radial velocities.     

微结构X射线源中电子与阳极作用的蒙特卡罗模拟

根据电子多重散射理论,基于蒙特卡罗方法研究不同能量电子垂直入射不同材料的阳极靶后,电子在阳极靶内的沉积能量分布,及X射线发射位置的能量分布.结果表明：电子在靶内的轨迹扩展和入射电子能量、靶材料有关,99%电子能量沉积在近似圆柱形区域内.且电子在入射方向上的沉积能量分布不是直接递减,而是先递增到一定深度后再递减,符合电子背散射理论.说明X射线产生区域是在距表面一定深度区域内.另外,通过对比分析发现金刚石膜作为电子吸收光栅是不可行的,但作为热沉材料有很大的潜力.这些结论可为微结构X射线源研究及高亮度高相干X射线源设计提供参考.     

Conditions for the Stable Acceleration of Ion Rings by Collapsed Liners

The conditions of suppressing the collective slowing-down of an ionic beam on electrons, which is caused by the excitation of electron plasma oscillations (beam instability) by ions, are found. In contrast to available explicit and implicit indications, a large spread of the energies only in an ionic beam is insufficient for this suppression. The acceleration of ions is shown to become stable when a sufficiently large spread of the electron velocities is simultaneously present. The beam instability of ions is suppressed by the Landau damping of the ion-excited plasma waves at electrons. The results obtained are used to analyze the possibility of ion acceleration by collapsed cylindrical plasma liners.     

Demonstration of a narrow energy spread, ∼0.5 GeV electron beam from a two-stage laser wakefield accelerator

Laser wakefield acceleration of electrons holds great promise for producing ultracompact stages of GeV scale, high-quality electron beams for applications such as x-ray free electron lasers and high-energy colliders. Ultrahigh intensity laser pulses can be self-guided by relativistic plasma waves (the wake) over tens of vacuum diffraction lengths, to give >1 GeV energy in centimeter-scale low density plasmas using ionization-induced injection to inject charge into the wake even at low densities. By restricting electron injection to a distinct short region, the injector stage, energetic electron beams (of the order of 100 MeV) with a relatively large energy spread are generated. Some of these electrons are then further accelerated by a second, longer accelerator stage, which increases their energy to ～0.5 GeV while reducing the relative energy spread to <5% FWHM.     

Effect of the anode-current magnetic field on the motion of electrons in a triode with a virtual cathode

The effect of the anode-current magnetic field on the electron motion in a triode with a virtual cathode is considered. It is shown that the anode-current magnetic field influences the oscillation period and trajectories of electrons. The condition of self-isolation of the electron beam is investigated as a function of the diode parameter. It is shown that the displacement of the beam electrons under the action of the anode-current magnetic field leads to a decrease in the electron phase modulation and an increase in the spread in the electron oscillation amplitude; as a result, the generation efficiency of microwave radiation decreases.     

Reconstructing the energy spectra of backscattered electrons with allowance for the spectrometer’s response function

The inverse problem of reconstructing the true spectrum of electrons backscattered from massive and layered targets with allowance for the spread function of the toroidal sector energy analyzer and for the response function of the spectrometer??s electron detector is solved. We present the results from studying the energy spectra of a number of homogeneous samples and film-on-substrate systems obtained at different energies of the irradiating electron beam at normal incidence of the electrons on the surface, and at a 45° angle of backscattered electron detection.     

低速度零散会切电子枪的设计和数值仿真

根据拉格朗日方程对电子在平滑会切磁场中的径向波动与速度零散的关系进行讨论。运用Matlab,Magic软件相互结合的方法设计电子枪结构和磁场。用Matlab程序模拟单电子在给定电场、磁场中的运动,分析了单电子径向速度对零散的影响,并优化磁场分布。设计的磁场可以有效地减小单电子束径向速度,降低电子束速度零散。用Magic软件对电流为1 A、能量为30 keV的电子束在优化磁场中的运动进行仿真,得到的电子束速度比约为2,速度零散小于2.5%,轴向速度零散小于8.5%。     

The spread of the initial energy of electrons in a gyrotron due to the negative-mass instability developing in a magnetron-injector gun

The formation of an electron beam in a magnetron-injector gun of a gyrotron is investigated in the case when it is affected by the negative-mass instability due to the Coulomb repulsion and nonisochronous cyclotron rotation of particles. A technique is proposed for calculating the spread of the initial energy of electrons caused by the instability, which develops as the electron beam moves in the presence of a nonuniform magnetostatic field of the magnetron-injector gun. It is demonstrated that this instability can be one of the main factors providing the energy spread in electron guns of gyrotrons.     

Localization in artificial disorder: two coupled quantum dots

Using single electron capacitance spectroscopy, we study electron additions in quantum dots containing two potential minima separated by a shallow barrier. Analysis of the addition spectra in the magnetic field allows us to distinguish between electrons delocalized over the entire dot and those localized in either of the potential minima. We demonstrate that a high magnetic field abruptly splits up a low-density droplet into two smaller fragments, each residing in a potential minimum. An unexplained cancellation of electron repulsion between electrons in these fragments gives rise to paired electron additions.     

On possibility of measurement of the electron beam energy using absorption of radiation by electrons in magnetic field

A possibility of precise measurement of the electron beam energy using absorption of radiation by electrons in a homogeneous magnetic field for electrons of high energy in the range up to a few hundred GeV, was considered earlier. In this paper, with the purpose of experimental checking of this method in the range of several tens MeV of electrons energies, a possibility of measurement of absolute energy of the electron beam with a relative accuracy up to 10^?4, is considered. We take into account influence of the laser beam diffraction, of the spread of electrons over energies, and of the length of formation of radiation absorption in the process of electron beam energy measurement. The laser wavelength and the length of the magnet are chosen depending on the length of photon absorption formation. It is found that the kinematical restrictions on the photon absorption process lead to the selection in angles of propagation of photons, which can be absorbed by the beam electrons. It is shown that parameters of the electron beam will noticeably not vary during the measurement of the energy.     

辐照电子在光纤芯处能量沉积的计算

为了用尽可能低的辐照电子能量在光纤芯处形成大的性质改变,模拟了0.1～1 MeV能量的电子辐照二氧化硅.发现每一特定能量的电子辐照二氧化硅时,在其中有个能量沉积最快的位置.计算得到0.447 4 MeV能量的电子在单模光纤中心能量沉积最快,分析发现对于这个能量的电子多数可以穿透到光纤芯处,电子能量在光纤芯处的沉积主要是由于电子能量的减小造成的.这些结果可为用电子辐照光纤制作光器件时的初始电子能量选择提供参考.     

两种温度电子对稳态等离子体鞘层的影响

建立包含冷热电子的无碰撞等离子体鞘层的流体模型,利用数值模拟研究含有两种温度电子时等离子体鞘层的产生.结果表明:对于含有两种不同温度电子的稳态等离子体,冷电子的温度越低或者冷电子的含量越多,鞘边离子的马赫数临界值就越小,鞘层的宽度就变得越窄,沉积器壁的离子动能流也就越少.此外,研究不同种类的等离子体(Ar、Ke、Xe),鞘层厚度和离子沉积器壁动能流受冷电子的影响.     

Momentum spread in a relativistic electron beam in an undulator

The motion of the relativistic electron beam in the spatially periodic magnetic field of an undulator has been considered taking into account the effect of the incoherent field of the spontaneous undulator radiation on the motion of the electrons. An expression for the rms momentum of the electrons has been obtained. It has been shown that the momentum spread in the ultrarelativistic electron beam increases in the spontaneous incoherent emission mode. Conditions for the self-amplification of the spontaneous undulator radiation in ultrashort-wavelength free-electron lasers have been discussed.     

Floating Sheath Potentials in Non-Maxwellian Plasmas

The floating sheath potential in a plasma having a Maxwellian electron distribution function is e?>s = -kTe 1n (a/b)/2 where Te is the electron temperature, a is the ratio of electron temperature to ion temperature, and b is the ratio of electron mass to ion mass. This expression is derived by equating the flux of electrons and ions to a surface in the plasma. Only electrons initially having an energy greater than -e?s flow to the surface. These electrons are in the tail of the distribution, a region that differs significantly from a Maxwellian in many plasmas. An analysis is performed where the sheath potential is solved for using a two-temperature model for the electron distribution function. The two-temperature model accurately describes the distortion from a Maxwellian in the tail of the distribution function. The magnitude of the sheath potential calculated with the two-temperature distribution is significantly smaller than that obtained using a Maxwellian distribution, a result of the reduction in the relative abundance of energetic electrons in the tail of the distribution.     

Dipole-allowed optical absorption in a parabolic quantum dot with two electrons

Dipole-allowed optical absorption in a parabolic quantum dot with two electrons are studied by using the exact diagonalization techniques and the compact density-matrix approach. Numerical results are presented for typical GaAs parabolic quantum dots. The results show that the total optical absorption coefficient of two electrons in quantum dot is about five times smaller than that of one electron in quantum dot.     

Spectra of electrons and X-ray photons in a diffusive nanosecond discharge in air under atmospheric pressure

The spectra of electrons and X-ray photons generated in nanosecond discharges in air under atmospheric pressure are investigated theoretically and experimentally. Data for the discharge formation dynamics in a nonuniform electric field are gathered. It is confirmed that voltage pulses with an amplitude of more than 100 kV and a rise time of 1 ns or less causing breakdown of an electrode gap with a small-radius cathode generate runaway electrons, which can be divided into three groups in energy (their energy varies from several kiloelectronvolts to several hundreds of kiloelectronvolts). It is also borne out that the formation of the space charge is due to electrons appearing in the gap at the cathode and a major contribution to the electron beam behind the foil comes from electrons of the second group, the maximal energy of which roughly corresponds to the voltage across the gap during electron beam generation. X-ray radiation from the gas-filled diode results from beam electron slowdown both in the anode and in the gap. It is shown that the amount of group-3 electrons with an energy above the energy gained by runaway electrons (in the absence of losses) at a maximal voltage across the gap is much smaller than the amount of group-2 electrons.     

Theory and simulation of an 85 GHz quasioptical gyroklystron experiment

The linear theory used to design a two-resonator 85 GHz quasioptical gyroklystron with a nonuniform magnetic field is presented. It is shown that a tapered magnetic field in the prebunching resonator has a relatively small effect on the electron bunching parameter. The effect of velocity spread of the electron beam can be minimized by adjusting the magnetic field strength in the two resonators. Measured amplifier performance is in good agreement with calculations from the nonlinear multimode simulation code. Gyrophase bunching of the electrons is preserved over the long drift region (30 radiation wavelengths) even though no attempt has been made to minimize the velocity spread of the beam.