Formation of Negative Hydrogen Ions in Direct Extraction Sources
- 1 October 1973
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 44 (10) , 1451-1463
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1685973
Abstract
The article represents a review of direct extraction sources of negative hydrogen ions. During the past year or so interest in this method of producing high intensity beams of negative ions has increased considerably because of new developments resulting in currents of more than 20 mA. The first part of the article deals with inelastic collisions between particles which lead to the creation or destruction of negative ions. The knowledge of such elementary processes is relevant because the intensity of extracted H− currents is determined primarily by the equilibrium between the competing processes of creation and destruction. Attempts by several authors to analyze theoretically the production of H− ions in the plasma of a discharge will be explained subsequently and their results compared with experiments. Four types of direct extraction sources will be described next: duoplasmatrons, hollow discharge duoplasmatrons, Penning sources, and magnetron sources. Details of their design and beam characteristics will be given, as well as suggestions for further improvements.Keywords
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