The generation and transmission research of the fan-shaped multi-beam intense relativistic electron beams

Abstract

Compared with the beam of conventional relativistic klystron, each beam of the multi-beam relativistic klystron has a low perveance and low space charge force, but it has a high conversion efficiency of beam-wave. According to these requirements, in this paper we investigate the generation and transmission of fan-shaped multi-beam intense relativistic electron beams by the experiment and the simulation with using the three-dimensional software, and analyse the electrostatic field distribution of the cathode end and the influence on the generation of the electron beams by establishing a three-dimensional model of electron gun. The emission currents by the particle-in-cell simulation, then the beam spot pictures of electron beam transmission in a hollow drift tube and multiple fan-shaped hole drift tube by the particle tracking solver are obtained. The theoretical analysis and explanation with the aid of the sheet beam theory are presented. The simulation and experimental results show that the beams rotate not only around their own center, but also around the center of the system in the transmission process of the electron beams in the hollow drift tube. Thus we can increase the transmission efficiency by rotating multiple fan-shaped hole drift tube to align the beams.