Five-frame, x-ray camera for charged particle, inertial confinement fusion studies

A prototype framing x-ray camera has been developed for photographic studies of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) targets irradiated by charged particle beams. Electron images from five, independently gated, microchannel plates are transported out of the radiation field by means of a toroidal magnetic field and are permanently recorded on film. The calculated, effective exposure time is 相似文献   

Inertial Confinement Fusion Energy with Particle Beams

This paper introduces the concepts associated with inertial confinement fusion (ICF) energy production, and outlines particle beam technologies of interest for ICF applications with emphasis on ion beams. Progress in obtaining larger thermonuclear neutron yields from laser fusion pellets and the constantly improved understanding of these experiments, makes the application of particle beam techniques to this area look increasingly promising. The reason for this is that lasers suitable for demonstrating the feasibility of igniting fusion pellets are becoming available, but lasers offering the requisite properties for fusion power plant application have apparently not been identified. Accelerator designers can suggest several promising avenues to produce a driver for a power plant. To place some perspective on the issues, a brief review will be given of ICF target requirements. This will be followed by a brief historical view of heavy ion fusion, a synopsis of the various accelerator approaches and associated problems that have been recognized, and a summary of power plant considerations.     

High-intensity carbon ion injector

An injector of intense beams of carbon ions is described. The device uses an array of carbon plasma guns to inject ions directly into a magnetically insulated acceleration gap. Ion currents exceed 3 kA with beam energies between 100 and 300 keV (for C+) and 200 and 600 keV (for C+ +) over a 700-ns pulselength.