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Title	Extraction Compression and Acceleration of High Line Charge Density Ion Beams
Author(s)	Henestroza, Enrique ; Briggs, Richard J ; Grote, D P ; Peters, Craig ; Yu, Simon
Affiliation	(LBNL, Berkeley) ; (LBNL/AFR, Berkeley, California) ; (LLNL, Livermore, California) ; (SAIC, Alamo, California)
Publication	2005
In:	21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.2032
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	HEDP applications require high line charge density ion beams. An efficient method to obtain this type of beams is to extract a long pulse, high current beam from a gun at high energy, and let the beam pass through a decelerating field to compress it. The low energy beam bunch is loaded into a solenoid and matched to a Brillouin flow. The Brillouin equilibrium is independent of the energy if the relationship between the beam size (a), solenoid magnetic field strength (B) and line charge density is such that (Ba)<sup><font size="-1">2