A Report on Collective Ion Acceleration via Space Charge Waves on Intense Relativistic Electron Beams.

Abstract

Collective methods of ion acceleration using intense relativistic electron beams (IREB) have stimulated a great deal of interest in the past few years. The main virtue of an IREB collective ion accelerator is the high internal electric field strength. The primary drawback has been an insufficient ion energy gain or inadequate scaleability. An extensive study for generating a high quality electron beam has been done and is presented in Section II. In Section III an intense ion injector study was conducted by the method of computer simulation. The last addition to the proposal was a design for producing a toroidal magnetic field. This field will be needed in a future study of high energy and high current electron beams.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 13, 1981
Accession Number
ADA096154

Entities

People

  • Frederick Mako
  • Robert Lucey

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Simulations
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electric Fields
  • Electron Beams
  • Electron Energy
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Flow Rate
  • Free Electrons
  • Frequency
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Energy
  • High Voltage
  • Ion Accelerators
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Phase Velocity
  • Space Charge

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster