Current and voltage monitors on a pulsed-power accelerator “Gamma-1”

Abstract

There is presented a system of registering electric parameters of high-current pulsed electron accelerator “Gamma-1” its output electric power being 1.5 TW. The accelerator system of registration makes it possible to register in a single time scale the voltage pulses with the amplitude up to 3 MV, current pulses with the amplitude up to 1 MA and duration from several nanoseconds to a microsecond. Into the system of registration there are included two-step resistive voltage dividers, capacitive voltage divider, Rogowski coils, sectionalized Rogowski coils, B-dots, shunts, transmission line, attenuators, oscilloscopes, program system. The program system is aimed at reading, transmitting and processing information from oscilloscopes on the archival computer and provides interaction with database of current and voltage sensors, cables and filters. For each registration session the system also forms a map of experiment where system configuration and experiment parameters are presented.