Complex diagnostics of a high-current accelerator during generation of high-power bremsstrahlung

A diagnostic system has been developed for the YHH-10 high-current electron accelerator with a beam current of ≤ 60 kA, an electron energy of ≤4 MeV, and a pulse duration of ≤80 ns. The X-ray diagnostic method is used in the diagnostic system to determine the energy of accelerated electrons at the entrance into the converter target. A measuring transducer of the electron energy is based on determining the static transfer characteristic of the converter target, which relates (under the known conditions) the energy of accelerated electrons to the beam current and the dose rate at a selected point of the bremsstrahlung field on the electron beam transport axis. Physically, the transducer is located in the target unit of the accelerator.