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Session RP1 - Poster Session VIII.
POSTER session, Thursday afternoon, October 30
Fran Hill Southeast Exhibit Hall, ACC

[RP1.081] The Integrated Beam Experiment-- The Next Step for Heavy Ion Fusion

C.M. Celata, J.W. Kwan, E.P. Lee, M.A. Leitner, B.G. Logan, J-L. Vay, W.L. Waldron, S.S. Yu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), J.J. Barnard, R.H. Cohen, A. Friedman, D.P. Grote, A.W. Molvik, W.M. Sharp (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), D.V. Rose, D.R. Welch (Mission Research Corporation), R.C. Davidson, Igor D. Kaganovich, H. Qin, Edward A. Startsev (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

The U.S. Heavy Ion Fusion Program is completing a 2-decade effort of small-scale experiments and analysis to explore the beam manipulations and non-neutral plasma physics of the intense beams necessary for a driver. The next step, a proof-of-principle experiment called the “Integrated Beam Experiment” (IBX) is in the design stage. It would integrate, for a single beam, all the beam physics from source to target, including beam production, acceleration, interaction with electrons and gas, compression, neutralization, and final focus. Present designs call for a K+ beam accelerated in an induction linac to 5-10 MeV. We present design studies, including PIC code studies of beam behavior.

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