Browsing William W. Destler--E-prints by Issue Date

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    • Collective acceleration of carbon ions to 170 MeV 

      Destler, William; Hoeberling, R.; Kim, H.; Bostick, W. (American Institute of Physics, 1979-08-01)
      The collective acceleration of carbon ions to a peak energy in the range 170-200 MeV has been achieved using a 6-MeV 190-kA lOO-ns electron beam pulse generated by the Pulserad 1590 facility at Kirtland Air Force Base. ...

    • Collective acceleration of heavy ions 

      Destler, William; Floyd, L.; Reiser, M. (American Physical Society, 1980-01-14)
      Results of experiments on the collective acceleration of H, He, N, Ne, Ar, and Kr ions with an intense relativistic electron beam (1.5 MeV, 30 kA, 30 ns) are reported. Using time-of-flight diagnostics, we found that the ...

    • Experimental study of collective acceleration of ions from a localized gas cloud 

      Floyd, L.; Destler, William; Reiser, M.; Shin, H. (American Institute of Physics, 1981-02)
      The collective acceleration of ions (H, D, He, N, Ne; Ar, Kr, Xe) to peak energies of about 5 MeV/nucleon has been achieved using a 1.5-MeV, 35-kA, 30-ns electron beam pulse. Ion energies have been measured using ...

    • Intense microwave generation from a non-neutral rotating E layer 

      Destler, William; Romero, H.; Striffler, C.; Weiler, R.; Namkung, W. (American Institute of Physics, 1981-04)
      The radiation produced by a hollow, non-neutral, rotating, relativistic E layer propagating inside a coaxial cylindrical drift tube has been investigated theoretically and experimentally. The measured radiation spectrum ...

    • Collective acceleration of light and heavy ions 

      Destler, William; Floyd, L.; Cremer, J.; Parsons, C.; Reiser, M.; Rudmin, J. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1981-06)
      The collective acceleration of ions (H, D, He, C, N, Ne, Al, Ar, Fe, Cu, Xe) from a well localized plasma immediately downstream of a relativistic electron beam diode is experimentally investigated. The ions are produced ...

    • Application of intense relativistic electron beams to the switching of high currents in high power electrical networks 

      Mayergoyz, D.; Destler, William; Emad, F. (American Institute of Physics, 1982-11)
      A new concept of switching of high currents using intense relativistic electron beams propagating in vacuum drift tubes is presented. Some possible applications of this concept for the design of current switches are ...

    • Production of positron emitting isotopes using a collective accelerator 

      Destler, William (American Institute of Physics, 1983-02)
      Experimental studies of the production of C^11, N^13, 0^15, and F^18 by collective1y accelerated deuterons impinging on solid targets are presented.

    • Charge-state measurements of collectively accelerated heavy ions 

      Destler, William; Cremer, J. (American Institute of Physics, 1983-02)
      Thomson spectrometer measurements of the charge states of collectively accelerated light and heavy ions (H, D, He, N, Ne, Ar) are reported. Within experimental error, all charge states are accelerated to the same peak ...

    • Microwave generation from rotating electron beams in magnetron-type waveguides 

      Destler, William; Kulkarni, R.; Striffler, C.; Weiler, R. (American Institute of Physics, 1983-07)
      The production of high power microwave radiation at high harmonics of the electron cyclotron frequency by the interaction of a rotating electron beam with a magnetron-type conducting boundary has been studied theoretically ...

    • Studies of the helix controlled beam front accelerator concept 

      Destler, William; O'Shea, P.G.; Reiser, M.; Striffler, C.D.; Welsh, D.; Fleischmann, H.H. (IEEE - Transactions on Nuclear Science, 1983-08)
      Helix controlled collective ion acceleration involves the use of a helical slow wave structure to control the propagation velocity of an intense relativistic electron beam front, in which ions could be trapped and accelerated ...

    • High power microwave generation from rotating e-layers in magnetron-type conducting boundary systems 

      Striffler, C.D.; Destler, William; Kulkarni, R.; Weiler, R.L. (IEEE - Transactions on Nuclear Science, 1983-08)
      Studies of the production of microwave and millimeter wave radiation at high harmonics of the relativistic electron cyclotron frequency by the interaction of a rotating E-layer with a multiresonator magnetron boundary ...

    • Collective acceleration of laser-produced ions 

      Cremer, J.T.; Destler, William (IEEE - Transactions on Nuclear Science, 1983-08)
      Experimental studies of the collective acceleration of laser produced ions have been conducted. An intense relativistic electron beam (1 MeV, 30 kA, 30 ns) is emitted from a 4 mm diameter tungsten cathode and passes through ...

    • Collective acceleration of laser produced ions 

      Cremer, J.; Destler, William (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1983-08)
      Experimental studies of the collective acceleration of laser produced ions have been conducted. An intense relativistic electron beam (1 MeV, 30 kA, 30 ns) is emitted from a 4 mm diameter tungsten cathode and passes ...

    • Millimeter wave emission from a rotating electron ring in a rippled magnetic field 

      Shefer, R.; Bekefi, G.; Destler, William (American Institute of Physics, 1984-02-01)
      We report measurements of millimeter wave emission from a rotating relativistic electron ring (2 MY, 1 kA) in which electrons move in quasi-circular orbits under the combined action of a uniform axial magnetic field and ...

    • Intense relativistic electron beam propagation in evacuated drift tubes 

      O'Shea, P.; Welsh, D.; Destler, William; Striffler, D. (American Institute of Physics, 1984-06)
      The propagation ofa magnetically confined intense relativistic electron beam (IREB) (I MeV, 27 kA, 20 ns FWHM) in vacuum drift tubes has been studied experimentally and theoretically. Experimental results for current ...

    • Small period electromagnet wigglers for free electron lasers 

      Destler, William; Granatstein, V.; Mayerogyz, I.; Segalov, Z. (IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics, 1985)
      No abstract found.

    • Experimental study of millimeter wave radiation from a rotating electron beam in a rippled magnetic field 

      Destler, William; Aghamir, F.; Boyd, D.; Bekeli, G.; Shefer, R.; Yin, Y. (American Institute of Physics, 1985-06)
      The generation of millimeter wave radiation from the interaction of a rotating electron beam (2 MeV, I kA, 5 nsec) with an azimuthally periodic wiggler magnetic field has been studied experimentally. Calculations of the ...

    • Collective acceleration and the propagation of intense beams into vacuum 

      Destler, William; O'Shea, P.; Segalov, Z. (IEEE, 1985-10)

    • High power microwave generation from a large orbit gyrotron* 

      Lawson, W.; Destler, William; Striffler, C.D. (IEEE - Transactions on Nuclear Science, 1985-10)
      A study of the production of high power microwave radiation from a large orbit gyrotron in azimuthally periodic boundary systems has been conducted. Linear growth rates have been calculated for the 2¿ modes of magnetron-like ...

    • A High-power backward-wave oscillator driven by a relativistic electron beam 

      Kehs, Alan; Bromborsky, Alan; Ruth, B.G.; Graybill, S.E.; Destler, William; Carmel, Y.C.; Wang, M.C. (IEEE - Transactions on plasma science, 1985-12)
      A high-power backward-wave oscillator (BWO) has been constructed that is driven by a relativistic electron beam (REB). A typical electron beam of 2-4 kA is accelerated across a diode potential of 650-800 kV and then guided ...