Design and experimental results of a new electron gun using a magnetic multipole plasma generator
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 62 (3) , 761-771
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1142081
Abstract
A new electron gun utilizing a magnetic multipole plasma generator was designed and fabricated as the heat source of the high heat flux test facility, called JEBIS (JAERI electron beam irradiation stand). By changing the acceleration grids, this electron gun is able to produce a pencil to a sheetlike electron beams up to 4 A at 100 keV for 1 ms to continuous mode. In this electron gun, magnetic lens system is not adopted to focus the electron beam, but the space charge neutralization effect by the beam plasma produced downstream of the electron gun is utilized to prevent the blow‐up of the electron beam. In addition, high permeability metal is embedded in the first and the second grids to magnetically shield the earth field and the stray field from the beam bending magnet. It was experimentally demonstrated that wide range of heat flux from 0.2 MW/m2 to over 2000 MW/m2 can be realized at the test sample position about 1.7 m downstream of the electron gun.Keywords
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