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TY - CONF AU - Dudnikov, V.G. AU - Dudnikova, G. AU - Han, B. AU - Johnson, R.P. AU - Murray, S.N. AU - Pennisi, T.R. AU - Piller, C. AU - Santana, M. AU - Stockli, M.P. AU - Welton, R.F. ED - Henderson, Stuart ED - Akers, Evelyn ED - Satogata, Todd ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Saddle Antenna RF Ion Sources for Efficient Positive and Negative Ions Production J2 - Proc. of IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA, May 3-8, 2015 C1 - Richmond, VA, USA T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 6 LA - english AB - Existing RF Surface Plasma Sources (SPS) for accelerators have specific efficiencies for H⁺ and H⁻ ion generation ~3-5 mA/cm² kW, where about 50 kW of RF power is typically needed for 50 mA beam current production. The Saddle Antenna (SA) SPS described here was developed to improve H⁻ ion production efficiency, reliability and availability. In SA RF ion source the efficiency of positive ion generation in the plasma has been improved to 200 mA/cm² kW. After cesiation, the current of negative ions to the collector was increased from 1 mA to 10 mA with RF power ~1.5 kW in the plasma (6 mm diameter emission aperture) and up to 30 mA with ~4 kW RF. Continuous wave (CW) operation of the SA SPS has been tested on the test stand. The general design of the CW SA SPS is based on the pulsed version. Some modifications were made to improve the cooling and cesiation stability. CW operation with negative ion extraction was tested with RF power up to 1.8 kW from the generator (~1.2 kW in the plasma) with production up to Ic=7 mA. Long term operation was tested with 1.2 kW from the RF generator (~0.8 kW in the plasma) with production of Ic=5 mA, Iex ~15 mA (Uex=8 kV, Uc=14 kV). PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 4060 EP - 4062 KW - plasma KW - ion KW - extraction KW - operation KW - electron DA - 2015/06 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-168-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-THPF143 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2015/papers/thpf143.pdf ER -