1. Status and prospects of the 60 GHz SEISM ion source
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Thomas Andre, Julien Angot, Maud Baylac, Pierre Olivier Dumont, Thierry Lamy, Patrick Sole, Thomas Thuillier, Francois Debray, Ivan Izotov, Vadim Skalyga, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Grenoble (LNCMI-G), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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History ,Physics::Plasma Physics ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-ACC-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Accelerator Physics [physics.acc-ph] ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,Computer Science Applications ,Education - Abstract
SEISM is a unique ECR ion source operating at a frequency of 60 GHz. The prototype is based on a simple magnetic geometry, the cusp, allowing the use of polyhelix coils (developed with LNCMI, Grenoble) to generate the closed ECR surface at 2.14T. The plasma is sustained by a high intensity HF pulse (up to 300kW). Previous experiments at LNCMI have successfully demonstrated the establishment of the nominal magnetic field and the extraction of ion beams with a current density up to 1 A cm-2. The presence of afterglow peaks was also observed, proving the existence of ion confinement in a CUSP ECR source. An experimental campaign is carried out in 2021 using a new transport line designed to improve the transmission of the beam to the new detectors. Short and long-term research plans are presented to transform this high current density into a high intensity ion beam that can be used for accelerators of the future.
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- 2021
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