DesignandPerformanceofa30KVElectronGunwithTen.PDFVIP

SANDIA REPORT SAND2006-4989 Unlimited Release Printed August 2006 Design and Performace of a 30 KV Electron Gun with Ten Independent Cathodes and a Magnetic Lens Kim W. Reed and Joseph M. Rudys Prepared by Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 and Livermore, California 94550 Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. Approved for public release; further dissemination unlimited. DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF A 30 KV ELECTRON GUN WITH TEN INDEPENDENT CATHODES A MAGNETIC LENS Kim W. Reed and Joseph M. Rudys Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 580, Mail Stop MS-1152 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 USA Abstract 1 HV DECK UMBILICAL Measurements on a 30 kV electron gun with ten E-GUN independent cathodes, operating in a 6.5 Tesla (T) magnetic field are presented. An earlier paper covered the design of this electron gun [1]. Experimental results are compared to model predictions. Beam current is compared to theoretical space charge limited flow. I. INTRODUCTION TEST MAGNET The electron gun accommodates a physics experiment (a) requiring a sheet electron beam to be swept whi