Magnetized particle transport in multi-MA accelerators

N Bennett, DR Welch, G Laity, DV Rose… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2021 - APS
N Bennett, DR Welch, G Laity, DV Rose, ME Cuneo
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 2021APS
Kinetic simulations of Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine are conducted to understand
particle transport in the highly magnetized environment of a multi-MA accelerator. Joule
heating leads to the rapid formation of electrode surface plasmas. These plasmas are
implicated in reducing accelerator efficiency by diverting current away from the load [MR
Gomez et al., Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 20, 010401 (2017) PRABCJ 2469-9888 10.1103/
PhysRevAccelBeams. 20.010401, N. Bennett et al., Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 22, 120401 …
Kinetic simulations of Sandia National Laboratories’ machine are conducted to understand particle transport in the highly magnetized environment of a multi-MA accelerator. Joule heating leads to the rapid formation of electrode surface plasmas. These plasmas are implicated in reducing accelerator efficiency by diverting current away from the load [M.R. Gomez et al., Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 20, 010401 (2017)PRABCJ2469-988810.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.010401, N. Bennett et al., Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 22, 120401 (2019)PRABCJ2469-988810.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.120401]. The fully-relativistic, electromagnetic simulations presented in this paper show that particles emitted in a space-charge-limited manner, in the absence of plasma, are magnetically insulated. However, in the presence of plasma, particles are transported across the magnetic field in spite of being only weakly collisional. The simulated cross-gap currents are well-approximated by the Hall current in the generalized Ohm’s law. The Hall conductivities are calculated using the simulated particle densities and energies, and the parameters that increase the Hall current are related to transmission line inductance. Analogous to the generalized Ohm’s law, we extend the derivation of the magnetized diffusion coefficients to include the coupling of perpendicular components. These yield a Hall diffusion rate, which is equivalent to the empirical Bohm diffusion.
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