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Advances in pulsed power modeling and experimentation on the RITS accelerator
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Digest of Technical Papers. PPC-2003. 14th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37472) Pulsed power conference Pulsed Power Conference, 2003. Digest of Technical Papers. PPC-2003. 14th IEEE International. 1:379-382 Vol.1 2003
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RITS (Radiographic Integrated Test Stand) is planned to be a 12-cell, 16-MV, 150-kA, 70-ns induction voltage adder. A three-cell, 4-MV, 150-kA, 70-ns version (RITS-3) is operating routinely at its specified level at Sandia. Its over-all performance will be described. Advances have been made in understanding and modeling many of the pulsed power features of RITS and several fundamental accelerator design guidelines have been developed. We summarize these. We omit discussion of vacuum power flow and symmetrization, which are the subject of other detailed papers. Subjects include: performance and redesign of the input oil-water diaphram of the pulse forming line (PFL); water switch losses; prepulse measurements at the cell; high voltages breakdowns; and impacts on the induction cell risetime due to the current-symmetrizing azimuthal oil line and the vacuum injection to the magnetically insulated output transmission line.