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MOPD081 Progress with Low Intensity Diagnostics at ISAC diagnostics, ion, controls, electron 885
 
  • V.A. Verzilov
    TRIUMF, Vancouver
 
 

The ISAC accelerators presently deliver various stable and radioactive CW heavy ion beams to experiments with energies ranging from 2keV/u up to about 4.5 MeV/u ( for A/q = 6 ). Beam intensities also vary enormously being as low as a few hundred ions per second for certain radioactive ion species and as high as 100 enA for stable and pilot beams. Monitoring of beams with currents of less than ~0.5 epA requires a dedicated diagnostics instrumentation which typically makes use of radiation hard single particle detectors. Several such devices have been built and are under development at TRIUMF. Electron multiplier based SEEM monitors, solid state and scintillator detectors with a count rate capability in excess of 106 pps are employed. Device controls are integrated into the EPICS environment and provide standardized, simple and transparent operation. Details of the design, tests and beam measurements will be present.