Operation and Upgrading of the Beam Optics Test Stand

Abstract

This grant studied novel methods to focus high intensity neutral particle beams. The work directly impacts the space based neutral particle beam program. The goal was to investigate methods to correct aberrations in the final focusing lens of an NPB accelerator. The two unconventional beam optics techniques that were developed and investigated were: 1) biased grid arrays to correct particle orbits and 2) solenoid lenses with entrapped non-neutral electron distributions to correct spherical aberration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA208626

Entities

People

  • S. Humphries Jr.

Organizations

  • University of New Mexico

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Arrays
  • Charged Particles
  • Computers
  • Detectors
  • Electron Beams
  • Electrons
  • Engineering
  • Geometry
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Measurement
  • Neutral Particle Beams
  • New Mexico
  • Particle Beams
  • Space Based
  • Test Stands
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

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