Physical design of a pulsed kicker for low energy proton beams

Huang Zhang, Jun Zhu, Haitao Ren, Liansheng Xia, Linwen Zhang, Shixiang Peng, Kexin Liu

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Abstract

The shortest pulse width of ECR proton source is about sub-millisecond. A chopper or a kicker is important to produce 100 ns pulsed proton beams for high gradient accelerating structure. Physical design of an electrostatic kicker is described in this paper. The configuration of the kicker is matched with an ECR proton source which is being investigated. Electrostatic field is calculated with ANSYS. The capacitance of the kicker is extracted with CMATRIX command macro. Relations between beam's rising time and kicker pulse's rising time are discussed. The desire for pulsed power supply is also analyzed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2999-3003
Number of pages5
JournalQiangjiguang Yu Lizishu/High Power Laser and Particle Beams
Volume25
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Capacitance calculation
  • Electrostatic field calculation
  • Proton source
  • Pulsed kicker
  • Pulsed power supply

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