| Paper | Title | Page |
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| TUPLT021 | Heavy Ion Beam Transport in Plasma Channels | 1183 |
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| The transport of heavy ion beams in high current discharge channels is a promising option for the final beam transport in a heavy ion fusion reactor. The channel provides space-charge neutralization and an azimuthal magnetic field of several tesla, thereby allowing for transporting high current ion beams. The possibility to heat the hohlraum target with only two ion beams simplifies the reactor design significantly. Therefore channel transport is studied as part of the US fusion reactor study as an alternative to neutralized ballistic focusing. We have created 1 m long discharge channels and studied the channel development and stability. In addition, we have carried out proof-of-principle transport experiments using the UNILAC facility at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung. The experiments demonstrate the feasibility of plasma channel transport. Our transport experiments with low current beams are supplemented by simulations for high current beams. These simulations show the possibility of transporting particle currents of up to 60 kA. |