Simultaneous induction acceleration and bunching in the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment

The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment uses a ramped, bipolar induction module waveform to compress the beam to nanosecond bunches for the study of warm dense matter (WDM). We have recently explored beam dynamics and possible beamline modifications required to simultaneously compress and accelerate the beam using a unipolar waveform. This has the advantage of a higher energy deposition in the target, and mimics beam manipulations in next-generation ion accelerators for WDM experiments. We report modeling and experimental results of this beam manipulation on the NDCX beamline with the new induction bunching module with approximately twice the volt-seconds.