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- What determined the size of radiation fields produced by for example, pulsed-power, linear accelerators?
Hi everyone, sorry we are talking about pulsed power accelerators again. In this context, it is about the HERMES III again.
According to https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a351472.pdf HERMES III, a 16 terawatt pulsed power accelerator at Sandia National Labs, which fired electron beams with peak energy (currently) at 22 MeV and 730 ka current that later converted into Bremsstrahlung radiation is used to irradiate very large outdoor area and very large test objects such as military tanks to simulate nuclear explosion gamma ray radiation effects on whole weapon systems and large armoured vehicles. What determined the size of the Bremsstrahlung radiation fields? Is it simply the size of the accelerator or the voltage and current of the electron volt regardless the size of the accelerator?
According to https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a351472.pdf HERMES III, a 16 terawatt pulsed power accelerator at Sandia National Labs, which fired electron beams with peak energy (currently) at 22 MeV and 730 ka current that later converted into Bremsstrahlung radiation is used to irradiate very large outdoor area and very large test objects such as military tanks to simulate nuclear explosion gamma ray radiation effects on whole weapon systems and large armoured vehicles. What determined the size of the Bremsstrahlung radiation fields? Is it simply the size of the accelerator or the voltage and current of the electron volt regardless the size of the accelerator?