Production of Highly Charged Heavy Ions by means of a Hybrid Source in Dc mode and in Afterglow Mode.

The ECLISSE experiment has been carried out by coupling a Laser Ion Source (based on a Nd:YAG laser (0.9 J / 9 ns, laser power densities <1011 W/cm2) to the SERSE superconducting ECR ion source. Cw beams of highly charged ions from metal samples without the use of ovens or sputtering technics were obtained in a variety of experimental conditions. The maximum charge states obtained from the ECRIS were 38+ for Ta and 41+ for Au. The peak current was obtained for 25+ and 29+ respectively and it was in the order of some tens of μA. In this work the analysis of some preliminary results obtained in afterglow mode will be also presented. We employed microwave pulse (length 4 msec) and laser pulse (length 9 nsec) with the same frequency (30 Hz) and variable relative phase. For appropriate phase values, a current enhancement of about one order of magnitude was observed. © 2005 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]