Construction and Performance of a Low Voltage Arc as a Source of Positive Ions
- 1 May 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 19 (5) , 291-298
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1741254
Abstract
A low voltage arc of the ``capillary'' type which has given reliable performance since its installation in 1940 is described. The design stresses simplicity and reliability, but no special attempt is made to attain very low consumption of gas. Operating at an arc current of 0.75 ampere and consuming 25 cc of deuterium at N.T.P. per hour, a total beam current of 1.1 milliampere is produced with a probe potential of 3500 volts. About 50 microamperes of deuterons, magnetically selected from this beam, can be focused on a target.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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