Barbara Lewis

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.

TL;DR: The Sandia National Laboratories SPHINX accelerator is used to study the response of electronics to pulsed x-ray and electron environments as mentioned in this paper, which consists of a Marx generator and an oil-insulated pulse-forming line with self-closing oil switches.

TL;DR: The Hermes III accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories is a 20cavity multi-stage linear induction voltage accelerator typically producing a 20-MV, 40-ns, 600-kA output pulse Energy is initially stored in Marx banks that are each discharged into two intermediate store capacitors Each of these capacitors are then switched with an SF6-insulated high voltage Rimfire gas switch into four parallel pulse forming lines that further condition the discharge pulse and deliver it to the induction cavities arrayed along the axis of the machine as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The hardware changes made to the triggering system of the HERMES III accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico are described and the efforts to reference the digitizer time bases together using a modular and scalable approach with commercial-off-the-shelf components are detailed.