Production of Negative Helium Ions by Nearly-Resonant Charge Exchange in Potassium

The design criteria for a source of 5-10?A of He- ions suitable for tandem accelerator application have been investigated. The process used is a nearly-resonant charge exchange between He+ ions, from a duoplasmatron, and potassium vapor. In the He+ energy range of 5-25 keV, the He-/He+ yield has been measured as a function of He+ energy. Yields of ~2%/ have been observed. A He- beam emittance of 1.2 × 10-2 cm rad eV1/2 has been measured. The potassium flux into the system was found to be ~1016 particles/s.     

Characteristics of a nitrogen-jet system in KUR-ISOL

The basic characteristics of a N₂-jet system coupled with a surface-ionization type ion source have been investigated at KUR-ISOL. The yields of transported activities and ionized ions have been measured under various conditions for both the He- and N₂-jets. The effects of N₂ gas upon the ionization and skimmer efficiency have been investigated. It was found that N₂ gas has almost no effect upon the ionization efficiency, but causes poorer skimmer efficiency than He gas owing to the large opening angle of aerosol particles at the outlet of a capillary. A mixture of He and N₂ gases was also tested.     

A Small "Cold-Cathode" High-Intensity Cyclotron Ion Source

High beam currents have been achieved with a radial source which fits into the 2-inch gap of a 30-inch cyclotron. The geometry is that of a cold-cathode or P. I. G. source. However, the cathodes are heated to thermionic temperatures by ion bombardment rather than a conventional high-current heated filament. The source is now in use and produces intense beams of H+, D+, He3, and alpha particles. Internal beams of H+ or D+ of more than one mA are obtained routinely at extraction radius. In addition, 30 ?A of H- or D- are obtained at a stripping foil by merely reversing the magnetic field of the cyclotron.     

High-current sputtering ion source for refractory metals

The Chavet-Bernas ion source of the MEIRA isotope separator has been modified to a gas sputtering source for the production of intense refractory metal ion beams. The source has produced a molybdenum ion current of 8 mA; the ratio of this current to the total current, including the argon carrier, is 0.46. A metal ion density of 5.8 mA/cm² has been achieved at the source from an emitting area of 55×2.5 mm². This ion density is significantly higher than the figures which have been reported for such sources.     

On the production of the KrF− and XeF− Ion beams for the tandem electrostatic accelerators

Negative ion formation of KrF₂ and XeF₂ was studied by using a Penning ion source with radial extraction, and the extraction of KrF^? and XeF^? from the ion source was confirmed by observing the mass fragmentation patterns. Improving the gas feeding system, we could have negative ion currents one order of magnitude larger than the currents reported previously. Typical yields for KrF^? and XeF^? were 100 nA and 50 nA, and maxima of 320 nA and 150 nA.     

The development of a time of flight spectrometer for LARN

An elastic recoil detection time of flight system to depth profile light elements has been developed on ALTAÏS, the new Tandetron accelerator at LARN. The detector mounted at 45° from the beam axis consists of two isochronous electron detectors for the timing signal (START and STOP) and a 450 mm² heavy ion PIPS detector that detects the energy of the recoil atoms. The 2MV Tandem accelerator provides heavy ion beams with a maximum energy of 16 MeV depending on the charge transfer efficiency of the gas exchange canal located in the middle of the machine. A large variety of primary ion beams like ²⁸Si, ³⁵Cl, ⁶³Cu, ¹²⁷I or ¹⁹⁷Au can be produced with the SINIX heavy ion source and accelerated on the target. Typical current around 1 nA can be obtained. The energy transfer to the recoil atoms is typically in the MeV range and depends on the mass and the energy of the projectile. Some secondary effects like the energy loss in the carbon foils of the timing detector but also in the entrance window of the energy detector should not be neglected if we try to depth profile light elements with this technique. Time resolution of about 1 ns for the electrons detectors is suitable to obtain 1 amu mass resolution. Some examples of applications will be developed in this paper.     

Modified He Ion Source Using Cs Vapor Charge Exchange

Earlier versions of the He- source suffered from cesium metal collecting on insulators and entering the r. f. source. A single acceleration gap is used to reduce the number of insulators requiring protection and additional shielding of the remaining insulators is provided. The new version also uses a gridded focusing element. Additional baffling and smaller entrance and exit apertures for the exchange canal have eliminated the flow of cesium vapor into the r. f. source. A further modification to produce higher current adds an einsel lens between the r. f. source and the exchange canal.     

The investigation of OH radicals produced in a DC glow discharge by laser-induced fluorescence spectrometry

In this paper the OH radicals produced by a needle-plate negative DC discharge in water vapor,N2 + H2O mixture gas and He + H2O mixture gas are investigated by a laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) system.With a ballast resistor in the circuit,the discharge current is limited and the discharges remain in glow.The OH rotation temperature is obtained from fluorescence rotational branch fitting,and is about 350 K in pure water vapor.The effects of the discharge current and gas pressure on the production and quenching processes of OH radicals are investigated.The results show that in water vapor and He + H2O mixture gas the fluorescence intensity of OH stays nearly constant with increasing discharge current,and in N2 + H2O mixture gas the fluorescence intensity of OH increases with increasing discharge current.In water vapor and N2 + H2O mixture gas the fluorescence intensity of OH decreases with increasing gas pressure in the studied pressure range,and in He + H2O mixture gas the fluorescence intensity of OH shows a maximum value within the studied gas pressure range.The physicochemical reactions between electrons,radicals,ground and metastable molecules are discussed.The results in this work contribute to the optimization of plasma reactivity and the establishment of a molecule reaction dynamics model.     

Characteristics of a hydrogen gas field ion source for muprobe application

A hydrogen gas field ion source has been built specifically for use with a scanning proton muprobe. Source parameters have been measured on a testbench and show that a current of 20 nA within an angular spread of ± 550 mrad can be achieved from an Ir emitter, with an estimated virtual source size of 0.001 μm. This is 10⁵ times brighter than the beam available to the muprobe from standard accelerator sources.     

Performance of ANL 4-MV Dynamitron with Heavy-Ion Source

The performance of the ANL 4-MV Dynamitron accelerator using a Danfysik heavy-ion source is briefly described. Using CC14 support gas, 2 ?A beams of 58Ni+ were obtained at 3.5 MeV and 6 ?A beams at 2 MeV by optimizing source chemistry.     

Scintillation light produced by low-energy beams of highly-charged ions

Measurements have been performed of scintillation light intensities emitted from various inorganic scintillators irradiated with low-energy beams of highly-charged ions from an electron beam ion source (EBIS) and an electron cyclotron resonance ion source (ECRIS). Beams of xenon ions Xe^q+ with various charge states between q = 2 and q = 18 have been used at energies between 5 and 17.5 keV per charge generated by the ECRIS. The intensity of the beam was typically varied between 1 and 100 nA. Beams of highly charged residual gas ions have been produced by the EBIS at 4.5 keV per charge and with low intensities down to 100 pA. The scintillator materials used are flat screens of P46 YAG and P43 phosphor. In all cases, scintillation light emitted from the screen surface was detected by a CCD camera. The scintillation light intensity has been found to depend linearly on the kinetic ion energy per time deposited into the scintillator, while up to q = 18 no significant contribution from the ions’ potential energy was found. We discuss the results on the background of a possible use as beam diagnostics, e.g. for the new HITRAP facility at GSI, Germany.     

Millimeter-Scale PIG Source for Miniature Mass Spectrometers

A new millimeter-scale penning ion generator (PIG) ion source has been developed for miniature mass spectrometers. The cathode is a 40?mm diameter?×?2?mm long stainless steel cylinder with a hole of 4?mm, the anode with a hole of 12.6?mm and a length of 6.4?mm is made in stainless steel, and the ion emission hole size on the anticathode is 5?mm. Several microamperes of H⁺ ions can be extracted with less than 10?W discharge power consumption. The PIG ion source is shown to have advantages of long lifetime under high-pressure operation and low power consumption. The ion source is being designed and investigated for use in miniature mass spectrometer; however this ion source is thoroughly described so that it can be easily implemented by other researchers for other applications.     

回旋加速器质谱技术中氚和氦—3粒子的探测和鉴别

在利用回旋加速器质谱技术进行氚断代的测量中,工作气体是电解水样品时收集到的含氚氢气,并混入少许一定量的空气。空气中的微量~3He和样品中的~3H同时加速并被用作参考标准以监督加速器的束流变化。描述了利用金硅面垒探测器望远镜和铝吸收箔的组合来探测和鉴别~3H和~3He的实验方法和结果。     

氦-3回路中氚的辐射安全分析

氚安全是确保燃料元件堆内功率瞬态试验的关键因素之一。本文首先分析了氚的来源和危害,提出了氦-3回路氚的防护和去污措施,然后讨论了氚在正常运行和事故时释放到包容箱和工艺间的量和处理措施,最后评价了氦-3系统发生不同安全措施失效的事故情况下工作人员的氚内照射剂量。结果表明:系统正常运行时工作人员所受最大剂量为1.27 μSv/d,除了氚安全措施全部同时失效且HT短时间全部被氧化成HTO的极限事故以外,在一般事故情况下氚对工作人员产生的最大剂量小于10 mSv。     

A Source for Multiply-Charged Ions and Acceleration of C, N and O Ions by IPCR Cyclotron

The design and performance of the ion source which is now used in the IPCR variable energy cyclotron are described. The source is of the electron-bombarded hot cathode type having two cylindrical cathodes of tungsten and a water-cooled copper anode containing a replaceable molybdenum slit plate. The arc discharge is established continuously but not pulsed. The source is usually operated very stably under an arc power of 1.5 to 3kW with a gas flow rate of 1 to 2 cc/min. The lifetime of the source is mainly limited by the erosion of the upper tungsten cathode at about 24 hours. At present, C4+, N4+, O4+, N5+ and O5+ ions are accelerated up to 48~100, 56~1100, 70~95, 56~125 and 70~125 MeV respectively, and a few micro-amperes of these ions are extracted from the cyclotron. The vacuum obtainable in the accelerating chamber is usually 2 ~ 4 × 10-6 mHg, and the loss of ion beam by the charge exchange effect is comparatively small. Extracted ion beams are used in several experiments for about 1900 hours in a year.     

Production of Multiply-Charged Ions of Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe by the Electron-Bonbarded Hot Cathode IoN Source of IPCR

Production of multiply-charged ions of Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe has been studied by use of an electron-bombarded hot cathode type ion source of the IPCR 160cm cyclotron, which is similar to Morozov's source. These multiply-charged ions were accelerated by a 3rd harmonics acceleration mode in the cyclotron and detected with a beam probe fixed at the radius of 55cm. Observed multiply-charged ions are Ne2+, Ne3+, Ne4+, Ne5+, Ar3+, Ar4+ Ar5+, Ar6+, Ar7+, Ar8+, Kr6+, Kr7+, Kr8+, Kr9+, Xe9+, Xe10+ and Xe11+. Relative abundance of each charge state of four elements were measured. In case of Kr and Xe , the intensity of observed multiply-charged ions decreased to 1/3 or 1/4 when the charge number is increased by one. Intensities of Ar4+, Ar6+, Ar8+, Kr6+ and Kr8+ were measured as a function of the operation conditions of the ion source, such as arc voltage, arc power and gas flow rate. It was found that a smaller gas flow and a higher arc power brought about a higher yield in all the measured ions. Obtained current intensities of ion source output are 40?A Ar8+, 600?A Kr6+, 40?A Kr9+, 150?A Xe9+ and 10?A Xe11+ respectively.     

表面峰强度的Monte Carlo模拟计算

本文介绍用Monte Carlo模拟方法对入射He~+离子能量在0.1—2.OMeV范围内,硅、铝单晶在几种不同表面结构条件下的表面峰强度进行了计算。讨论了离子入射能量、入射角度、晶格原子热振动幅度、相关系数、表面增强因子、原子位移和吸附原子等因素对计算结果的影响。     

Atomic Collision Experiments Utilizing Low-Velocity, Highly-Charged Ion Beams

Intense beams of highly-stripped ions are now routinely produced at low velocities using the Brookhaven dual MP-tandems in a unique four-stage accel/decel mode. This mode of operation combines three stages of acceleration, stripping at high energy, and one stage of deceleration to near-zero velocity. To date, experiments have used 10-100 nA beams of bare and few-electron heavy ions at energies as low as 0.2 MeV/amu, and upgrades of the facility should push the lower limit below 0.1 MeV/amu. Recent experiments, such as measurements of charge transfer and x-ray production for S6-16+ on He and Ar at 6-20 MeV and P(b) measurements for MO x-rays produced in Cl16+ + Ar collisions at 20, 10 and 5 MeV have demonstrated the usefulness of highly-stripped, low-velocity projectiles. These experiments and a few possibilities for future experiments are discussed.