Using Optical Transition Radiation (OTR) to Characterize a 3.25MeV, 1.45KA Electron Beam Distribution from a 50mm Field Emission Cathode
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Jaworski, Michael Andrew
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Flux and estimated spectra from a low-intensity laser-driven X-ray source
Laser-driven X-rays as probes for high-energy-density physics spans an extremely large parameter space with laser intensities varying by 8 orders of magnitude. We have built and characterized a soft X-ray source driven by a modest intensity laser of 4 × 10 13 W/cm 2 . Emitted X-rays were measured by diamond radiation detectors and a filtered soft X-ray camera. A material-dependence study on Al, Ti, stainless steel alloy 304, Fe, Cu and Sn targets indicated 5-μm-thick Cu foils produced the highest X-ray yield. X-ray emission in the laser direction and emission in the reverse direction depend strongly on the foil material and the thickness due to the opacity and hydrodynamic disassembly time. The time-varying X-ray signals are used to measure the material thinning rate and is found to be ~1.5 μm/ns for the materials tested implying thermal temperature around 0.6 eV. The X-ray spectra from Cu targets peaks at ~2 keV with no emission >4 keV and was estimated using images with eight different foil filters. One-dimensional hydrodynamic and spectral calculations using HELIOS-CR provide qualitative agreement with experimental results. Modest intensity lasers can be an excellent source for nanosecond bursts of soft X-rays.
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Progress in penumbral image source reconstruction with finite penetrating radiation
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Jaworski, Michael Andrew↗
Beam Envelope Variation due to Space-Charge Neutralization
Our non-invasive, time-resolved diamagnetic loop measurements of beam size during the electron current-pulse flattop at the exit of our 20-MeV linear induction accelerator revealed that the beam size varied by about 13% during the current flattop. This was an unexpected result, since both current and energy were constant during the interval of radius variation. One possible cause, poor vacuum, was investigated using a time resolved envelope equation. It was found that sufficiently high residual-gas pressure in the downstream transport region could result in the observed variation.
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