The Pohang Accelerator Laboratory operates an electron linac for a pulsed neutron source as one of the long-term nuclear R&D programs at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. The designed beam parameters are as follows; The nominal beam energy is 100 MeV, the maximum beam power is 10 kW, and the beam current is varied from 300 mA to 5A depends on the pulse repetition rate. The linac has t...

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) operates a high energy (up to 33 GeV) linear accelerator delivering pulses up to a few microseconds wide. The pulsed nature of the electron beam creates problems in the detection and measurement of radiation both from the accelerator beam and the klystrons that provide the RF power for the accelerator. Hence, a pulsed x-ray facility has been built a...

The DARHT II accelerator uses a pulsed high current electron beam and Bremsstrahlung converter target to generate an intense x-ray source for radiography. For the past several years, we have been performing an investigation of the possible adverse effects of (1) backstreaming ion emission from the Bremsstrahlung converter target and (2) the interaction of the resultant plasma with the electron ...

A prototype thermionic electron gun for a high-brightness X-ray generator has been developed. Its extraction voltage and design current are 60 kV and 100 mA (DC), respectively. The X-ray generator aims towards a maximum brilliance of 60 kW mm(-2). The beam sizes at the rotating anticathode must therefore be within 1.0 mm x 0.1 mm and a small beam emittance is required. The fabricated electron g...

A high voltage pulsed discharge device which can produce intense high energy electron beam named “pseudospark” is presented in this work. This discharge device is able to hold 10s of kV voltage, kA current and 10 10 -10 11 A/s current rising rate. The pseudospark device is also a simply-constructed source for intense electron beam with high energy. The presented experimental investigation is fo...

By using the OTR angular distribution property [1], it is possible to extract the energy and the angular dispersion of several kinds of beam [2]. Recently, Le Sage et al. [3] succeeded in producing a transverse phase-space mapping of a 100 MeV electron beam by coupling an interferometric measurement and a ’’mask’’ technique. We present the first OTR time resolved angular distribution measuremen...

Nanostructured SnO2 thin films were prepared using Electron Beam-Physical Vapor Deposition (EB-PVD) technique. Then Ag nanoparticles synthesized by laser-pulsed ablation were sprayed on the films. In order to form a homogenous coated of SnO2 on the glass surface, it was thermally treated at 500°C for 1 h. At this stage, the combined layer on the substrate was completely dried for 8 h in the air...

The electron beam from the Stanford two-mile linear accelerator is analyzed by a high quality magnetic deflection system in the beam switchyard and transported to the experimental areas. The first magnetic element in this system is a group of pulsed magnets which are used to deflect the accelerator electron beam to either transport system on a pulse-to-pulse basis and with different energy puls...