S.T. Rogowski

TL;DR: Sandia is actively pursuing the development of new accelerators based on the new technology of the Linear Transformer Driver (LTD), and is preparing a new LTD laboratory to house the 10, 1-MA, 100-kV LTD cavities recently constructed and received from the HCEI, Tomsk, Russia.

TL;DR: The linear transformer driver (LTD) is a new method for constructing high-current, high-voltage pulsed accelerators as discussed by the authors, which switches and inductively adds the pulses at low voltage straight out of the capacitors through low inductance transfer and soft iron core isolation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a first cut design of an IFE, linear transformer driver (LTD) for a very high current Z-pinch driver (ZX) with a frequency of 0.1 Hz.

TL;DR: A High Current Liner Transformer Driver (LTD) is operating at Sandia National Laboratories with an LTD/100 cavity running in rep-rate mode, achieving a mean peak current of 514.6 kA plusmn 4.8 kA with a rise time of 60.7 ns as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a new laser trigger system (LTS) is installed on Z that benefits the experimenter with reduced temporal jitter on the X-ray output, the confidence to use command triggers for time sensitive diagnostics and the ability to shape the current pulse at the load.