Absolute Measurement of Electron Cloud Density.

Covo, M. K. ; Molvik, A. W. ; Cohen, R. H. ; Friedman, A. ; Seidl, P. A. ; Logan, G. ; Bieniosek, F.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Density;    Electron clouds;    Kinetic ion energy;    Storage rings;    Particle accelerators;   

RP-ID  :  DE2007910204

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

Beam interaction with background gas and walls produces ubiquitous clouds of stray electrons that frequently limit the performance of particle accelerator and storage rings. Counterintuitively we obtained the electron cloud accumulation by measuring the expelled ions that are originated from the beam-background gas interaction, rather than by measuring electrons that reach the walls. The kinetic ion energy measured with a retarding field analyzer (RFA) maps the depressed beam space-charge potential and provides the dynamic electron cloud density. Clearing electrode current measurements give the static electron cloud background that complements and corroborates with the RFA measurements, providing an absolute measurement of electron cloud density during a 5 is duration beam pulse in a drift region of the magnetic transport section of the High-Current Experiment (HCX) at LLNL.