PKU, Beijing, People's Republic of China
A windowless vacuum seal technique has been widely researched and designed, which can connect high pressure cavity to a vacuum condition with rather little thickness of material. As a result, it will reduce most interaction with the particle beam penetrating through comparing to that of foil window. It is desired extensively in experiments using high-intensity heavy ion beams which will break foil window in a short time or in experiments which require the injecting beams with mono-energy and high purity for example. In this work, we study the plasma window in argon which is used as a windowless vacuum sealing device. A numerical 2D FLUENT-based magneto-hydrodynamic model has been developed to investigate the physical reasons of high pressure difference in plasma window. Further, preliminary experimental results are presented and discussed.
