Bremsstrahlung Diode Performance on Mercury MIV A

Abstract

The Mercury generator is a approx 6 MV, approx360 kA, approx50 ns magnetically-insulated voltage adder that recently became operational at the Naval Research Laboratory [1,2], providing a radiation environment of interest to both the DOE and DoD communities. To establish the bremsstrahlung dose and dose-rate production of Mercury, a series of large-area electron-beam (e-beam) diode experiments are performed in which the e-beam is deposited onto either a carbon or an optimized-thickness tantalum converter package. In this paper, experimental results are presented and compared with predictions from LSP (PIC) simulations [3] and ITS/Cyltran (Monte Carlo) calculations [4].

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA635128

Entities

People

  • David D. Hinshelwood
  • Donald P. Murphy
  • Frank C. Young
  • Gerald Cooperstein
  • Joseph W. Schumer
  • Raymond J. Allen
  • Robert J. Commisso
  • Stavros J. Stephanakis
  • Stephen B. Swanekamp

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption Coefficients
  • Bremsstrahlung
  • Converters
  • Dose Rate
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electron Beams
  • Electrons
  • Generators
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Production
  • Pulsed Power
  • Radiation
  • Simulations
  • Steady State
  • Thickness
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Solar Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics