Conceptual design of a 15-TW pulsed-power accelerator for high-energy-density—physics experiments

Matter and Radiation at Extremes - Tập 2 - Trang 204-223 - 2017
R.B. Spielman1, D.H. Froula1, G. Brent1, E.M. Campbell2, D.B. Reisman3, M.E. Savage3, M.J. Shoup1, W.A. Stygar3, M.L. Wisher
1Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
2Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14623, USA
3Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185 USA

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We have developed a conceptual design of a 15-TW pulsed-power accelerator based on the linear-transformer-driver (LTD) architecture described by Stygar [W. A. Stygar et al., Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 18, 110401 (2015)]. The driver will allow multiple, high-energy-density experiments per day in a university environment and, at the same time, will enable both fundamental and integrated experiments that are scalable to larger facilities. In this design, many individual energy storage units (bricks), each composed of two capacitors and one switch, directly drive the target load without additional pulse compression. Ten LTD modules in parallel drive the load. Each module consists of 16 LTD cavities connected in series, where each cavity is powered by 22 bricks connected in parallel. This design stores up to 2.75 MJ and delivers up to 15 TW in 100 ns to the constant-impedance, water-insulated radial transmission lines. The transmission lines in turn deliver a peak current as high as 12.5 MA to the physics load. To maximize its experimental value and flexibility, the accelerator is coupled to a modern, multibeam laser facility (four beams with up to 5 kJ in 10 ns and one beam with up to 2.6 kJ in 100 ps or less) that can provide auxiliary heating of the physics load. The lasers also enable advanced diagnostic techniques such as X-ray Thomson scattering and multiframe and three-dimensional radiography. The coupled accelerator-laser facility will be the first of its kind and be capable of conducting unprecedented high-energy-density–physics experiments.

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