Abstract
A high accuracy variable beam entrance Faraday cup (VBEFC) system is designed in this work. The presented VBEFC system is designed for the beam current profile measurement of the transient hollow cathode discharge (THCD) generated pulsed electron beam, which is a new source of high energy flux for metallic material processing. By proper designs of the beam entrance array, fast response electron collector, grounding, and shielding, this VBEFC system is capable of determining the radial profile and its temporal evolution of the THCD generated electron beam. The results of the electron beam current and current density distributions collected at varying radial locations and times under multiple voltages are presented in this paper. The experimental results show that both the amplitude and the current density of the THCD electron beam at a given radius always increased with the increase in the accelerating voltage, which is coincident with the self-focused propagation of the electron beam promoted by the voltage.
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