Heavy-ion accelerators for inertial confinement fusion

Heavy Ion Beams for Inertial Fusion

The United States' program in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is described in this paper, with emphasis on the studies of the use of intense high energy beams of heavy ions to provide the power and energy nkeded to initiate thermonuclear burn. Preliminary calculations of the transport of intense ion beams in an electrostatic quadrupole focussing structure are discussed. In a companion paper i...

Electron-Ion Temperature Relaxation Models for Inertial Confinement Fusion

Cluster Ion Beam Polishing for Inertial Confinement Fusion Target Capsules

The High Current Transport Experiment for Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion

The High Current Experiment (HCX) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is part of the US program to explore heavy-ion beam transport at a scale representative of the low-energy end of an induction linac driver for fusion energy production. The primary mission of this experiment is to investigate aperture fill factors acceptable for the transport of space-charge-dominated heavy-ion beams at ...

A Scaled Beam-combining Experiment for Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion

Transverse beam combining is a cost-saving option employed in many designs for induction linac heavy ion fusion drivers. The resultant transverse emittance increase, due predominantly to anharmonic space charge forces, must be kept minimal so that the beam remains focusable at the target. A prototype combining experiment has been built and preliminary results are presented. Four sources each pr...