Investigation of the focus shift due to compensation process for low energy ion beam transport

  • In magnetic Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) sections space charge compensation helps to enhance the transportable beam current and to reduce emittance growth due to space charge forces. For pulsed beams the time neccesary to establish space charge compensation is of great interest for beam transport. Particularly with regard to beam injection into the first accelerator section (e.g. RFQ) investigation of effects on shift of the beam focus due to space charge compensation are very important. The achieved results helps to obviate a mismatch into the first RFQ. To investigate the space charge compensation due to residual gas ionization, time resolved measurements using pulsed ion beams were performed at the LEBT system at the IAP and at the CEA-Saclay injektion line. A residual gas ion energy analyser (RGIA) equiped with a channeltron was used to measure the potential destribution as a function of time to estimate the rise time of compensation. For time resolved measurements (delta t min=50ns) of the radial density profile of the ion beam a CCD-camera was applied. The measured data were used in a numerical simulation of selfconsistant eqilibrium states of the beam plasma [1] to determine plasma parameters such as the density, the temperature, the kinetic and potential energy of the compensation electrons as a function of time. Measurements were done using focused proton beams (10keV, 2mA at IAP and 92keV, 62mA at CEA-Saclay) to get a better understanding of the influence of the compensation process. An interpretation of the acquired data and the achieved results will be presented.

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Author:Ansgar JakobGND, Horst Klein, Andreas LakatosGND, Oliver MeuselGND, Jürgen PozimskiGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-13884
URL:http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/e00/PAPERS/WEP3B06.pdf
Parent Title (German):Presented at the 7th EPAC Conference (Vienna, Austria 2000)
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2000
Year of first Publication:2000
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2005/08/12
Page Number:3
Source:Presented at the 7th EPAC Conference (Vienna, Austria 2000), http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/e00/PAPERS/WEP3B06.pdf
HeBIS-PPN:225901293
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht