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Compact Bremsstrahlung Diode Development on HERMES-III

Powell, Troy C.; Darr, Adam M.; Renk, Timothy J.; Webb, Timothy J.; Marshall, Garrett J.; Johnston, Mark D.; Mazarakis, Michael G.; Grabowski, Theodore C.; Nicholas, Ryder N.

Testing of a compact Bremsstrahlung diode was performed at the High Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron Source III (HERMES-III) was performed at Sandia National Laboratories in November, 2023. The compact diode described here is the first prototype diode in a campaign to optimize a Bremsstrahlung diode in terms of size and dose production. The goal was to test the diode at about 13MV, and the experiment realized between 10-12MV at the diode. Modeling and simulation of this geometry was performed