Acceleration schedules for a recirculating heavy-ion accelerator

Abstract

The recent development of miniature inductive adders has made it feasible to design programmable high-repetition-rate pulsers with a substantially higher voltage than is possible using a conventional field-effect transistor architecture. Prototype pulsers using the new technology are being developed as part of a series experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to test the concept of a recirculating induction accelerator. Preliminary numerical work is reported here to determine what effects the higher-voltage pulsers would have on the beam quality of the LLNL small recirculator.