FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
High continuous wave (cw) current of highly charged ion beams are required for several heavy ion accelerator facilities including the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). In most cases, Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance (ECR) ion sources remain the only ion source capable to meet the beam intensity requirement for these facilities. Performances of ECR ion source have increased by several order of magnitude since their inception in the 1970s mostly driven by increasing the resonance frequency with today current state of the art ECR ion source operating from 24 to 28 GHz. This paper provides an overview of recent advance in the design and operation of ECR ion source including plans to develop the next generation of ion source capable of operating above 40 GHz. A detailed account of the design and status of the new superconducting ECR ion source in construction for FRIB will also be reported.
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
Tests were performed at SNS in collaboration with visiting colleagues from ISIS, UK to evaluate the uncesiated beam performance of the SNS RF H− ion sources. Two spare experimental sources, one with internal antenna and one with external antenna were used for the tests. The beam currents achieved with Cs-free operations accounted for about 1/3 to 1/2 of the beam currents produced with cesiated operations. ~17 mA uncesiated H− current was demonstrated within the tested RF power range up to 65 kW with the internal antenna source and ~15 mA with up to 40 kW RF with the external antenna source. In Cs-free operations, the power supply for the electron dumping electrode was loaded down below its set voltage but was not too drastic to tamper the operation.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
We report on the development of multi-beam RF linear ion accelerators that are formed from stacks o low cost wafers. Wafers are prepared using MEMS techniques. We have demonstrated acceleration of ions in a 3x3 beamlet array with ion currents in the 0.1 mA range and acceleration at the 10 keV in lattice of RF (13 MHz) acceleration units and electrostatic quadrupoles. We will describe the status and plans for scaling to 10x10 beams, ion currents >1 mA and ion energies >100 keV in a compact, low cost setup for applications in materials processing.
[1] P. A. Seidl, et al., Rev. Sci. Instr. 89, 053302 (2018); doi: 10.1063/1.5023415
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
We report on the progress in modeling performance of the H− ion source at LANSCE. The key aspect we address is the lifetime of the tungsten filament. The lifetime depends on multiple parameters of the ion source and can dramatically vary in different regimes of operation. We use the multiphysics approach to model the performance of the ion source. The detailed analysis has been made to recognize key physical processes, which affect the degradation of the filament. The analysis resulted in the analytical model, which includes relevant processes from the first principles. The numerical code based on this model has been developed and benchmarked. The results of the modeling show good agreement with experimental data. As a result, the developed model allows predicting the performance of the ion source in various regimes of operation.