Conveners
Accelerator Design and Technology - 2
- Brahim Mustapha (Argonne National Laboratory)
The recently evolved U4 upgrade of the single-pass RF linac driver for IFE [1] is based on Basko’s assessments of the requirements for stable compression, fast ignition, and high-gain fusion burn of large cylindrical fuel pellets [2]. Basko’s simulations use the beams of Koshkarev’s driver [3]: 100 GeV Bi for compression and eight, telescoping Pt beams for fast ignition: four Pt isotopes in...
There is a growing demand in industrial and research communities for a laboratory-scale high-brightness light sources, in a wide range of applications. At high average powers such sources are needed for industrial processing, at moderate powers – mostly for metrology, and at a lower power for qualification, inspection, testing, and R&D. Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) is one very promising...
The Second Target Station (STS) facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Spallation Neutron Source will receive a 700 kW, 1.3 GeV proton beam with a pulse frequency of 15 Hz, delivered by the Ring to Second Target Beam Transport (RTST). Spanning approximately 220 meters, the RTST includes 56 quadrupole magnets and 15 dipole magnets. According to the STS Project Radiation Safety Policy and...
Details and engineering challenges of the Compact X-Ray Light Source (CXLS) at ASU are described. The CXLS achieves x-ray photons with energies in the range of 6-20 keV by using Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) where the electron beam interacts with a powerful laser instead of the traditional magnetic undulator. The short wavelength of the laser relative to a magnetic undulator reduces the...
Radiation processing technology started in Tunisia by the installation of a pilot plant gamma irradiator in 1999 and an electrons beam accelerator in 2009 at the National Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology (CNSTN). These facilities are established with the support of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the frame of the technical co-operation assistance program. The...
