Author: Murray, S.N.
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THPF143 Saddle Antenna RF Ion Sources for Efficient Positive and Negative Ions Production 4060
 
  • V.G. Dudnikov, R.P. Johnson
    Muons, Inc, Illinois, USA
  • G. Dudnikova
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
  • B. Han, S.N. Murray, T.R. Pennisi, C. Piller, M. Santana, M.P. Stockli, R.F. Welton
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported in part by US DOE Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 and by STTR grant DE-SC0011323.
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).
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-THPF143  
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