Open AccessA Conceptual Design of Transport Lines for a Heavy-Ion Inertial-Fusion Power Plant
Author(s) -
Lynn Heimbucher
Publication year - 1998
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1012246
Subject(s) - heavy ion , nuclear physics , physics , beam (structure) , ion , linear particle accelerator , fusion , conceptual design , inertial confinement fusion , atomic physics , plasma , engineering , optics , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , quantum mechanics
Two groups of heavy-ion beam pulses are to be transported from an induction linear accelerator to a target in an inertial fusion power plant. A group of 20 prepulses arrives first, emerging at lower energy upstream from the linac exit; the second group, of forty main pulses, have full energy. For definiteness they use numerical values for these beams developed by Wayne Meier; both beams consist of singly charged ions with mass number 200, having prepulse and main pulse energies of 3 GeV and 4 Gev, respectively