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TY - CONF AU - Losev, A.A. AU - Balabaev, A. AU - Hrisanov, I.D. AU - Kulevoy, T. AU - Satov, Yu.A. AU - Shumshurov, A. AU - Vasilyev, A.A. ED - Kuzin, Maksim V. ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Characteristics of Laser-Plasma Ion Source Based on a CO2-Laser for Heavy Ion Accelerators at ITEP J2 - Proc. of RUPAC2018, Protvino, Russia, 01-05 October 2018 C1 - Protvino, Russia T2 - Russian Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 26 LA - english AB - The design of laser-plasma heavy ion source is described. This ions source is supposed to operate at I-3 and I-4 accelerators at ITEP. Characteristics of ion component of plasma produced by pulses of the CO2 laser were studied, when irradiating a solid carbon target at power density of 10¹¹-10¹² W/cm². Time-of-flight technique using a high-resolution electrostatic energy analyzer was applied to explore charge state and energy distribution as well as partial currents of carbon and tungsten ions. Some results of investigation of influence of cavern formation on charge state of generated ions are presented. This work is of considerable interest in a wide area of applications of accelerated particle beams, including fundamental studies of state of matter in particle colliders (NICA project at JINR), radiation damage simulation and hadron therapy for cancer treatment. The goal of this work is to investigate characteristics of ions in expanding laser plasma and find optimal conditions of target illumination and ion beam extraction. This research is valuable for adapting an intensive beam from laser ion source to the accelerator, improving acceleration efficency and rising the amount of accelerated particles. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 498 EP - 500 KW - laser KW - target KW - plasma KW - extraction KW - rfq DA - 2018/11 PY - 2018 SN - 978-3-95450-197-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-RUPAC2018-THPSC47 UR - http://jacow.org/rupac2018/papers/thpsc47.pdf ER -