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| TUPAS078 | Status of FAR-TECH's ECR Ion Source Optimization Modeling | 1829 |
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Funding: Work supported by the US Department of Energy, under a SBIR grant No. DE-FG02-04ER83954. The electron cyclotron-resonance ion source (ECRIS) is one of the most efficient ways to provide high-quality, high-charge-state ion beam for research and development of particle accelerators and atomic physics experiments. For ECR ion source performance optimization, FAR-TECH Inc. is developing an integrated suite of computer codes: the Generalized ECRIS plasma Modeling code (GEM), the MCBC (Monte Carlo Beam Capture) module, to study beam capture and charge-breeding processes in ECRIS, and the extraction section code. Our recent progress includes the following: algorithm update of Coulomb collision in MCBC for more accurate calculations of the beam capture efficiency, which depends on beam energy and the background plasma, 2D extension of GEM by adding the radial dimension, and the ion extraction section modeling using an adaptive technique. |
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| WEPMN091 | Beam Test of a Grid-less Multi-Harmonic Buncher | 2242 |
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Funding: This work was supported by the U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC-02-06CH11357. The Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS) is the first superconducting heavy-ion linac in the world. Currently ATLAS is being upgraded with the Californium Rare Ion Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU). The latter is a funded project to expand the range of short-lived, neutron-rich rare isotope beams available for nuclear physics research at ATLAS. To avoid beam losses associated with the existing gridded multi-harmonic buncher, we have developed and built a grid-less four-harmonic buncher with fundamental frequency of 12.125 MHz. In this paper, we are going to report the ATLAS beam performance with the new buncher. |