A 2MeV thermionic cathode test stand was established to meet the requirement of the large area thermionic cathode system.A 100ram in diameter type'B'thermionic dispenser cathode was developed.A 1000A emission current was produced at the voltage of the diode about 1.8MV,the pulse width about 90ns(FWHM),and the cathode temperature about 1350℃.The emission current density is 12A/cm^2.The results indicate that a large area thermionic cathode which produces high quality and high current electron beams is visible.The results also indicate that the ability of cathode emission relies on the diode-vacuum and cathode-temperature.
BBU(Beam breakup)instability once appeared in the early stage of 'Dragon-Ⅰ' LIA,which was excited by TM_(110)mode stimulated when the eccentric beam passed through the multi-functional cavity(MFC).The radio frequency characteristics of MFC were analyzed with three methods such as analytic calculation,numerical computation,and measurement.The frequency of the TM_(110)mode from these methods agreed with the experimental results,while the transverse coupling impedance was different from the experimental results by some times.The main BBU exciter was the big transverse coupling impedance of the MFC which could be concluded.A grid was designed to shield the gap of the MFC.The experiments show that the BBU was compressed and the high frequency oscillation disappeared.
