Author: Heid, O.
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TUPF06 2D Wire Grid Integrated with Faraday Cup for Low Energy H Beam Analysis at Siemens Novel Electrostatic Accelerator 507
 
  • H. von Jagwitz-Biegnitz
    JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • P. Beasley, O. Heid
    Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany
  • D.C. Faircloth
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • A.J. Holmes
    Marcham Scientific Ltd, Hungerford, United Kingdom
  • R.G. Selway
    Inspired Engineering Ltd, Climping, United Kingdom
 
  A wire grid with 21 wires each vertically and horizontally with a spacing of 1 mm has been developed for beam analysis at Siemens' novel electrostatic accelerator. The wire grid is integrated in a Faraday Cup and profile measurements can therefore be combined with current measurements. The grid is used to analyse the 10 keV H beam coming from the ion source and the obtained beam parameters will be used as input for simulations of the beam transport in the accelerator. All 42 wires can be read out simultaneously with a multi-channel precision electrometer and the data can be fitted instantly with LabVIEW code that was developed for this purpose. This paper reports on some details of the mechanical design and the data analysis procedure in LabVIEW as well as some results of first measurements at the novel accelerator.