H- beam transport experiments in a solenoid low energy beam transport

The Front End Test Stand (FETS) is located at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and aims for a high current, fast chopped 3 MeV H(-) ion beam suitable for future high power proton accelerators like ISIS upgrade. The main components of the front end are the Penning ion source, a low energy beam transport line, an radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) and a medium energy beam transport (MEBT) providing also a chopper section and rebuncher. FETS is in the stage of commissioning its low energy beam transport (LEBT) line consisting of three solenoids. The LEBT has to transport an H(-) high current beam (up to 60 mA) at 65 keV. This is the injection energy of the beam into the RFQ. The main diagnostics are slit-slit emittance scanners for each transversal plane. For optimizing the matching to the RFQ, experiments have been performed with a variety of solenoid settings to better understand the actual beam transport. Occasionally, source parameters such as extractor slit width and beam energy were varied as well. The paper also discusses simulations based on these measurements.     

Improved chopping of a lithium beam for plasma edge diagnostic at ASDEX Upgrade

The lithium beam diagnostic at ASDEX Upgrade routinely delivers electron density profiles in the plasma edge by lithium beam impact excitation spectroscopy. An accurate background subtraction requires a periodically chopped lithium beam. A new, improved chopping system was developed and installed. It involves a voltage modulation for the extractor electrode and the beam deflection plates. The modulation of the extractor electrode reduces the unused portion of lithium ions and improves the stability of the beam with respect to its position. Furthermore, the data indicate an extended emitter lifetime. The extractor chopping was also found to be insensitive to sparks. The deflection chopping experiments demonstrated beam chopping in the kilohertz range. The significantly higher modulation frequency of the deflection chopping improves background subtraction of fast transient events. It allows a more accurate density measurements in the scrape off layer during impurity injections and edge localized modes.     

论常规型游梁式抽油机的机械平衡

目前,采用常规型游梁式抽油机采油是国际油田开采中最常用的方式,占整个采油作业的60％之多。常规型游梁式抽油机的平衡通常采用气动平衡、液压平衡和机械平衡3种方式,其中机械平衡通常采用曲柄平衡、游梁平衡以及复合平衡的方式实现。本文主要针对抽油机减速器的输出轴转矩进行计算分析,借助MATLAB软件作出曲柄净转矩曲线图,进行对比计算,从而确定不同的平衡方式对抽油机节能效果的影响程度。     

Improvement of four anode rods ion source

In this work, an improved form of a saddle field ion source has been designed and constructed. It consists of four anode rods made from copper and two copper cathode discs. The two cathode discs are placed symmetrically on both sides of the four anode rods. The electrical discharge and output ion beam characteristics were measured at different pressures using argon gas. The optimum distance between each two anode rods was determined. Also the optimum distance between the four anode rods and any cathode disc was obtained. It was found that the optimum distance between each two anode rods equal to 6 mm, while the optimum distance between the four anode rods and any cathode disc equal to 16 mm, where a stable discharge current and maximum output ion beam current can be obtained. The effect of negative extraction voltage applied to both the extractor electrode and Faraday cup on the output ion beam current was studied. The sputter yield of copper and aluminum targets using argon ions of different energies was determined.     

Steady state performance test analysis of actively cooled extractor grids for SST-1 neutral beam injector

Neutral beam injection (NBI) system is a workhorse to heat magnetically confined tokamak fusion plasma. The heart of any NBI system is an ion extractor system. Steady State Superconducting Tokamak-1 (SST-1) needs 0.5 MW of hydrogen beam power at 30 kV to raise the plasma ion temperature to ~1 keV and 1.7 MW of hydrogen beam power at 55 kV for future upgradation. To meet this requirement, an ion extractor system consisting of three actively cooled grids has been designed, fabricated, and its performance test has been done at MARION test stand, IPP, Julich, Germany. During long pulse (14 s) operation, hydrogen ion beam of energy 31 MJ has been extracted at 41 kV. In this paper, we have presented detailed analysis of calorimetric data of actively cooled extractor grids and showed that by monitoring outlet water temperature, grid material temperature can be monitored for safe steady state operation of a NBI system. Steady state operation of NBI is the present day interest of fusion research. In the present experimental case, performance test analysis indicates that the actively cooled grids attain steady state heat removal condition and the grid material temperature rise is ~18°C and saturates after 10 s of beam pulse.     

A Wide-Aperture Source of Oxygen Ions with a Hollow Cold Cathode and Magnetic Multicast

A gas-discharge source of oxygen ions is described. The source contains an anode and a hollow cold cathode with one extracting grid (extractor) placed at the opposite end to the anode. The hollow cathode has three multicast magnetic systems of permanent polarity. The first system is placed inside the cathode near the anode, the second system is situated outside the cathode opposite to the first one, and the third system is placed below the second one near the extractor surface. Like poles of the first and second magnetic systems are directed towards each other. The second and third systems have poles of similar orientations. Using this source, a beam of oxygen ions with a current density of up to 0.5 mA/cm² and nonuniformity of <5% was obtained across a 200-mm-diameter area at a distance of 120 mm from the face of the ion source. The source offers the following optimum performance characteristics: a discharge current of 0.4–1.2 A, oxygen flow rate of 9–12 cm³/min, and extracting voltage of 400–600 V. No limitations were revealed on the service life of a source operating in optimal modes.     

Ultraviolet stimulated electron source for use with low energy plasma instrument calibration

We have developed and demonstrated a versatile, compact electron source that can produce a mono-energetic electron beam up to 50 mm in diameter from 0.1 to 30 keV with an energy spread of <10 eV. By illuminating a metal cathode plate with a single near ultraviolet light emitting diode, a spatially uniform electron beam with 15% variation over 1 cm(2) can be generated. A uniform electric field in front of the cathode surface accelerates the electrons into a beam with an angular divergence of <1° at 1 keV. The beam intensity can be controlled from 10 to 10(9) electrons cm(-2) s(-1).     

Low background cold cathode ion source for molecular beam detection

An extractor gauge type electron bombardment ion source using carbon fiber bundles as field electron emitters is described. The cold cathode permits operation of the ionizer within a liquid He cooled cryopump. The high pumping speed for all molecules (except helium) together with its low background pressure make this ion source a very promising detector for crossed molecular beam scattering experiments.     

Characteristics of low-energy ion beams extracted from a wire electrode geometry

Beams of argon ions with energies less than 50 eV were extracted from an ion source through a wire electrode extractor geometry. A retarding potential energy analyzer (RPEA) was constructed in order to characterize the extracted ion beams. The single aperture RPEA was used to determine the ion energy distribution function, the mean ion energy and the ion beam energy spread. The multi-cusp hot cathode ion source was capable of producing a low electron temperature gas discharge to form quiescent plasmas from which ion beam energy as low as 5 eV was realized. At 50 V extraction potential and 0.1 A discharge current, the ion beam current density was around 0.37 mA/cm(2) with an energy spread of 3.6 V or 6.5% of the mean ion energy. The maximum ion beam current density extracted from the source was 0.57 mA/cm(2) for a 50 eV ion beam and 1.78 mA/cm(2) for a 100 eV ion beam.     

Research and development of H- ion source and low energy beam transport for a kaon-neutrino factory

A baseline H(-) ion source and low energy beam transport (LEBT) system have been identified for Project X. The filament-discharge H(-) ion source has been fabricated by D-Pace, Inc. and is now in operation at LBNL. The source is capable of delivering over 10 mA of H(-) beam in cw operation with normalized 4 rms emittances less than 0.7 π mm mrad. A two-solenoid magnetic lens LEBT system has been design. The design has been validated with simulations of beam transport for 5 mA 30 keV H(-) beams using various simulation codes.     

A 2.45 GHz electron cyclotron resonance proton ion source and a dual-lens low energy beam transport

The structure and preliminary commissioning results of a new 2.45 GHz ECR proton ion source and a dual-lens low energy beam transport (LEBT) system are presented in this paper. The main magnetic field of the ion source is provided by a set of permanent magnets with two small electro-solenoid magnets at the injection and the extraction to fine tune the magnetic field for better microwave coupling. A 50 keV pulsed proton beam extracted by a three-electrode mechanism passes through the LEBT system of length of 1183 mm. This LEBT consists of a diagnosis chamber, two Glaser lenses, two steering magnets, and a final beam defining cone. A set of inner permanent magnetic rings is embedded in each of the two Glaser lenses to produce a flatter axial-field to reduce the lens aberrations.     

Obtaining monochromatic beams of accelerated 6He ions with a near-Coulomb-barrier energy on the DRIB accelerator complex at the JINR

Two methods for obtaining monochromatic beams of accelerated ⁶He ions with energies around the Coulomb barrier on the DRIB accelerator complex at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is described. In the first method, the MSP-144 magnetic spectrometer is used as a monochromator of low-energy ⁶He beam after its passing through an energy absorber. The energy resolution of the ⁶He beam, which is 500 keV, is governed by the linear dimension of the target in the focal plane (18 mm). In the other method, a special probe is used to investigate nuclear reactions with accelerated ⁶He beams without loss of the beam intensity. With this probe, it is possible to perform experiments on the internal beam of the postaccelerator (U-400 cyclotron) of the DRIB complex. As a result, a ⁶He beam with a required energy and a beam resolution of 150 keV or better is produced at the target.     

Study on low frequency energy harvesting system in laminated aluminum beam structures with delamination

Piezoelectric material based energy harvesting system (EHS) has been designed and developed to study the influence of delamination on EHS in low frequency vibrating beam structures. The stiffness reduction due to the presence of delamination of specified size and its location is evaluated using the harvested energy in different vibrating elastic modes. Four aluminium beam specimens were fabricated, each having two layers of 1 mm thickness and a specified dimension of delamination was introduced by using a thin Teflon film. The beam without delamination is considered to be healthy and served as the reference structure. The PZT-5H patches were surface bonded on the beams to work as energy harvesting transducers. A suitable electronic circuit is developed to receive the energy from the vibrating beam. The experimental results in terms of energy generated by the four laminated beams have been compared with analytical results at resonant conditions and correlated to assess the effect of delamination on energy produced by low frequency vibration modes. The location of delamination has made a significant change in the harvested energy of second and third bendings; in particular, the delaminations at edge and root have displayed a clear trend. Resonant and off-resonant excitations have revealed that the edge delaminated beam produces lower energy output. The current work has demonstrated that energy harvesting from different elastic modes and with a variable frequency at constant force excitation can be a useful health monitoring technique, employing low frequency vibration, besides utilising the harvested energy itself.     

Zero-loss energy filtering under low-dose conditions using a post-column energy filter

Electron cryomicroscopy combined with energy filtering can be performed under low-dose conditions using a post-column energy filter. The microscope combined with the filter is set up such that it can be used with similar ease as a conventional microscope, the main difference being that all filter and microscope control is performed through a central computer and images are recorded with a cooled slow-scan CCD camera. The microscope can also still be used for regular imaging on film as without the filter. Owing to the 18 times post-magnification of the filter, the microscope normally has to be operated at a small magnification, e.g. 3000×, and the beam has to be contracted to a small spot, e.g. 5 mm, in the plane of the microscope viewing screen. Computer control allows one to perform a variety of tasks automatically, such as autofocusing, thickness measurements, most-probable-loss imaging, CCD spot-scanning and tomography. The gain in contrast due to zero-loss energy filtering is analysed using visual inspection, power spectra and Fourier ring correlation. The thickness range for ice-embedded specimens in which a filter at 120 kV is most useful appears to be between 100 and 300 nm.     

激光冲击金属板料变形的 最小激光能量估算及其实验研究

介绍了激光冲击板料变形的机理和冲击波产生的原因,提出了激光冲击板料变形中激光－能量转换体－靶材系统的爆轰波压力估算式。根据此压力估算式和材料的动态屈服强度,对激光冲击板料变形中所需的最小激光能量进行了估算,板料厚度为0.5 mm,约束凹模孔径Φ20 mm,在光斑直径6 mm,脉宽25 ns条件下的不锈钢靶材变形所需的最低脉冲能量大约为11 J。实验结果表明估算的最小激光能量与板料变形所需的能量阈值基本一致,且板料变形量随激光能量的增加呈非线性增大。最小激光能量的估算以及能量与板料变形的实验研究为板料变形的精确控制和预测提供了理论依据。     

Compact electrostatic beam optics for multi-element focused ion beams: simulation and experiments

Electrostatic beam optics for a multi-element focused ion beam (MEFIB) system comprising of a microwave multicusp plasma (ion) source is designed with the help of two widely known and commercially available beam simulation codes: AXCEL-INP and SIMION. The input parameters to the simulations are obtained from experiments carried out in the system. A single and a double Einzel lens system (ELS) with and without beam limiting apertures (S) have been investigated. For a 1 mm beam at the plasma electrode aperture, the rms emittance of the focused ion beam is found to reduce from ～0.9 mm mrad for single ELS to ～0.5 mm mrad for a double ELS, when S of 0.5 mm aperture size is employed. The emittance can be further improved to ～0.1 mm mrad by maintaining S at ground potential, leading to reduction in beam spot size (～10 μm). The double ELS design is optimized for different electrode geometrical parameters with tolerances of ±1 mm in electrode thickness, electrode aperture, inter electrode distance, and ±1° in electrode angle, providing a robust design. Experimental results obtained with the double ELS for the focused beam current and spot size, agree reasonably well with the simulations.     

A new sample holder for laser-excited pump-probe magnetic measurements on a Focus photoelectron emission microscope

A custom-made Omicron-compatible sample holder for time-resolved photoelectron emission microscopy experiments is presented. It comprises a sample plate with four contacts that hosts a chip carrier where the semiconductor substrate is mounted. Covering the sample holder, a 6 mm diameter mask protects electrostatically the sample from the extractor lens voltage while keeping the imaging quality unperturbed. The improvements are a greater sample lifetime and the ability to withstand much higher currents in the stripline that provides the magnetic pulse to the magnetic microstructure.     

Design of energy optimization for laser polymer joining process

Different laser heat inputs were applied on the gray-colored acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic using fixed laser power and variable scanning speeds to join ABS- and polycarbonate (PC)-based polymers. Experiments with a laser power between 6 and 8 W and a scanning speed of 1,500, 3,000, and 4,500 mm/min were used for the joining. Heat-affected zone (HAZ) and melt zone measurements were performed to find the joining energy threshold, and the mechanical properties of welds were evaluated. At the low scanning speed, the total heat input at the given area resulted in carbonization damage on the surface. However, energy distributed laser beam joining process by galvanometers resulted in secure and sound weld joining quality. Damage threshold was calculated as 127 J/cm² with relatively less sensitivity of scanning speed. However, the ablation threshold was measured to be 215, 281, and 424 J/cm² for the scanning speed of 4,500, 3,000 and 1,500 mm/min, respectively.     

Ceramic to metal joining by using 1064 nm pulsed and CW laser energy source

A novel joining method for ceramic and metallic layers is proposed using laser drilling and surface tension driven liquid metal filling. A high intensity laser beam irradiated a 500 μm thick ceramic filter, and the irradiated laser drilled the ceramic layer. The pulsed or CW laser transmitted through the ceramic layer irradiated the bottom metallic layer; the molten metallic layer then filled the drilled ceramic holes by the capillary force between the liquid metal and ceramic layer. As process variables, average laser power, pulse duration, and the number of pulses were used. The scattering optical properties were also studied for both green and red lasers. There was no significant difference between the colors and the estimated extinction coefficients were ?26.94 1/mm and ?28.42 1/mm for the green and red lasers, respectively.     

Extraction of a strongly focusing He+ beam from three-stage concave electrodes for alpha particle measurement system in ITER

A strongly focusing He(+) ion beam source equipped with concave multi-aperture electrodes was developed for production of He(-) through a charge exchange cell. The beam was extracted at a voltage less than 20 kV from 301 apertures distributed in an area of 100 mm φ, and focused at 750 mm distance. The beam current and the beam size of 2 A and 20 mm in diameter, respectively, were achieved with an arc power less than 10 kW. The optimum perveance was obtained at 0.02 A∕kV(1.5) at the beam energy less than 20 keV which is suitable for the conversion to He(-) in an alkali vapor cell.