Author: Xie, Y.L.
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MOPCP047 Analysis of Beam Quality Optimization of Bucket Ion Source 147
 
  • Y.H. Xie, C.D. Hu, C.C. Jiang, L.Z. Liang, S. Liu, Y.L. Xie
    ASIPP, Hefei, People's Republic of China
 
  Funding: The National Nature Science Foundation of China (contract number: 10875146)
The bucket ion source is widely used as the high energy beam source on the high power neutral beam injector system. A hot cathode bucket ion source is studied for the diagnostic neutral beam injector. The main parameters which influence the performance of bucket ion source are arc voltage, filament voltage, gas inlet rate and extracted voltage. In the experiment, only one parameter setting is varied when other parameter settings are fixed. The characteristics of ion source are got and the parameters setting valve are as follows: four filaments current from 500 A to 550 A, arc voltage from 120 V to 200 V, and ion source pressure during discharge is from 2.0 mTorr to 4.5 mTorr, extracted voltage from 40kV to 50kV. The arc current is higher than 100 A, and extracted beam current can reaches 6 A. Based on this, the arc efficiency, beam power deposition and beam proton ratio of ion source are analyzed and optimized. The proton ratio of extracted beam increased from 28 % to 40 %. It is very useful for the experimental operation and study about the bucket ion source.