1. Lifetime of the Highly Efficient H- Ion Sources
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Bollinger, D. S., Dudnikov, V. G., Faircloth, D. C., and Lawrie, S. R.
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Physics - Accelerator Physics - Abstract
Factors limiting the operating lifetime of Compact Surface Plasma Sources (CSPS) are analyzed and possible treatments for lifetime enhancement are considered. Noiseless discharges with lower gas and cesium densities are produced in experiments with modified discharge cells. With these discharge cells it is possible to increase the emission aperture and extract the same beam with a lower discharge current and with correspondingly increased source lifetime. A design of an advanced CSPS is presented., Comment: 4 pp. 3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2012) 20-25 May 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- 2013