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Demonstration of Multiple Shot per Day Capability on the Clam Shell Magnetically-Insulated Transmission Line (CSMITL2) at the Saturn Accelerator

Ulmen, Benjamin A.; Vandevender, J.P.

A second series of experiments were performed in August 2017 on the Clam Shell Magnetically-Insulated Transmission Line1 (CSMITL2) at the Saturn accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. In the first series of experiments in March 2017, the CSMITL2 demonstrated utilizing four vacuum-insulator levels instead of the two in CSMITL1, increasing the load power by a factor of four compared to CSMITL1 delivering 8 TW to the load, and polarity inversion of the power pulse. Obj ectives for the second series included multiple shot per day capability and large ion current densities from a large-area flashover ion diode source.