A novel macroparticle accelerator is proposed that employs cascaded electron beam diodes as drivers to ablatively accelerate projectiles to hypervelocities. Each unit stage of the accelerator consists of Marx generator, a pulse forming line, an electron beam diode, and a pellet guide tube. A solid projectile is accelerated by successively incident self-pinching electron beam pulses from a cascade of annular electron beam diodes set along the axis of a pellet trajectory. A launch efficiency of 100 % is possible in theory by controlling of velocity and mass of ablating material. A tentative concept of the accelerator is presented as one of the impact fusion drivers.
Ablative macroparticle accelerator using cascaded relativistic electron beam diodes
Beschleunigung von Makropartikeln durch Materialabdampfung mit Kaskaden von relativistischen Elektronenstrahlen
1985
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Englisch
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