Recent advances in radiographic X-ray source development at Sandia
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Oliver, B.V.; Hahn, K.; Johnston, M.D.; Leckbee, J.; Portillo, S.; Welch, D.R.
- Source
- 2008 17th International Conference on High Power Particle Beams (BEAMS) High Power Particle Beams (BEAMS), 2008 17th International Conference on. :1-5 Jul, 2008
- Subject
- Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Nuclear Engineering
Photonics and Electrooptics
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Acceleration
Plasmas
Adders
Laboratories
Fluids
Diagnostic radiography
Monte Carlo methods
- Language
Recent experiments at Sandia National Laboratories have demonstrated electron beam diode X-ray sources capable of producing > 350 rad@m with 1.7mm FWHM x-ray source distributions, and endpoint energy spectrum in the 6–7 MeV range. A review of our present theoretical understanding of the diode(s) operation and our experimental and simulation methods to investigate them will be presented. Emphasis is given to e-beam sources used on state-of-the-art Induction Voltage Adder (IVA) pulsed-power accelerators. In addition, a brief discussion of a proposed radiographic system based on Linear Transformer Driver (LTD) technology is discussed.