Coaxial Capacitive Dividers for High-Voltage Pulse Measurements in Intense Electron Beam Accelerator With Water Pulse-Forming Line

Abstract

In this paper, a new coaxial capacitive divider is investigated. The electrical characteristics of the capacitive divider are theoretically analyzed, and the parameters of the capacitive divider are calculated and measured. Its rise time is about 8 ns, and the divider ratio is over 2000. The divider is employed to measure the pulsed high voltages of an intense electron beam accelerator with a water pulse-forming line (PFL) in our laboratory. The capacitive divider can directly measure the diode voltage within nanoseconds, and when combined with an integrator, it can measure the PFL charging voltage with a duration of several microseconds. Compared with conventional resistance dividers, the capacitive divider has more advantages, such as compactness, stability, a relatively high divider ratio, a fast response time, and not much of an effect on the accelerator.