ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
The front-end systems (FES) of the spallation neutron source project are being built by Berkeley Lab and will deliver a pulsed 40 mA H− ion beam at 2.5 MeV energy to the subsequent drift-tube linac. The FES accelerator components comprise a rf driven, volume-production, cesium-enhanced, multicusp ion source; an electrostatic low-energy beam transport (LEBT) that includes provisions for transverse focusing, steering, and beam chopping; a radio-frequency quadrupole accelerator; and a medium-energy beam transport line. The challenges for ion source and LEBT design are the generation of a plasma suitable for creating the required high H− ion density, lifetime of the rf antenna at 6% duty factor, removal of the parasitic electron population from the extracted negative ions, and emittance conservation. The article discusses these issues in detail and highlights key experimental results obtained so far. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1431403
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