Pulsed ECR source in afterglow operation at CERN

1 March 1996

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments

Vol. 67 (3) , 1328-1330
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1146709

Abstract

A pulsed 14 GHz ECR4 source, adapted to operate in the afterglow mode, was delivered by GANIL to CERN in the framework of the Heavy Ion Facility Project. After four months of operation to commission the facility, it completed its first operational run of nine weeks at the end of 1994, providing lead ions to nuclear physics and ion cooling experiments. A very stable beam, with a useful length of over 1 ms, of 80 eμA of Pb27+ was provided by the source over this period. The operational problems experienced during the commissioning and operation, and the investigations to improve performance for the next experimental physics run are presented.

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Improvement of highly charged ion output from an ECR source
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 1995