High Energy Pulsed Particle Accelerator.

Abstract

This project was performed under the DoD University Instrumentation Program. A state-of-the-art accelerator was designed, constructed, and tested with the following parameters: Output (working) voltage: 1 Megavolt; Pulselength: Adjustable to 1 microsecond from 0.1 microsecond; Output Energy: At least 10 kJoules in 1 microsecond within voltage flatness; Current: At least 10 kA into fixed resistance 100 ohm load; Voltage deviation from flattop: Predicted to be less than + or - 7% voltage fluctuation into variable diode impedance which decreases from 300 ohms to 50 ohms during the 1 microsecond pulse. Less than + or - 5% total voltage deviation into fixed resistance load of 100 ohms. Unique circuitry was included in the generator to permit electrical compensation for diode impedance droop. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 31, 1984
Accession Number
ADA149247

Entities

People

  • R. M. Gilgenbach

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptance Tests
  • Classification
  • Compensation
  • Electron Beams
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Generators
  • High Energy
  • Impedance
  • Instrumentation
  • Microsecond Time
  • Nuclear Engineering
  • Particle Accelerators
  • Particles
  • Resistance
  • Security
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.