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DOI:10.18429/JACoW-HIAT2015-WEA2I01
Title Charge Breeding Experiences with an ECR and an EBIS for CARIBU
Authors
  • R.C. Vondrasek, A. Barcikowski, C. Dickerson, P.N. Ostroumov, R.C. Pardo, A. Perry, G. Savard, R.H. Scott, S.I. Sharamentov
    ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
Abstract The efficient and rapid production of a high-quality, pure beam of highly charged ions is at the heart of any radioactive ion beam facility. An ECR charge breeder, as part of the Californium Rare Ion Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) program at Argonne National Laboratory, was developed to fulfill this role. The charge breeding efficiency and high charge state production of the source are at the forefront of ECR charge breeders, but its overall performance as part of the accelerator system is limited by a pervasive stable ion background and relatively long breeding times. Steps have been taken to reduce the level of background contamination but have met with limited success. As such, an EBIS charge breeder has been developed and is now running in an off-line configuration. It has already demonstrated good breeding efficiencies, shorter residence times, and reduced background, and it is scheduled to replace the ECR charge breeder in late 2015. The resultant change in duty cycle and time structure necessitates changes to the overall facility operation. The experiences with these breeders their strengths, their weaknesses, and the possible paths to further improvement - will be discussed.
Funding This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 and used resources of ANLs ATLAS facility, an Office of Science User Facility
Paper download WEA2I01.PDF [0.788 MB / 5 pages]
Slides download WEA2I01_TALK.PDF [31.249 MB]
Conference HIAT2015, Yokohama, Japan
Proceedings Link to full HIAT2015 Proccedings
Session Wednesday Afternoon Invited Oral 2
Date 09-Sep-15   15:00–16:00
Main Classification Ion Sources, Traps, and Charge Breeding
Keywords ion, plasma, ECR, injection, background
Publisher JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors Osamu Kamigaito (RIKEN, Wako, Japan); Schaa, Volker R.W. (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Kazunari Yamada (RIKEN, Wako, Japan)
ISBN 978-3-95450-131-1
Published February 2016
Series Heavy Ion Accelerator Technology Conference (13th)
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