Author: Ropponen, T.
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TUCOBK03 Time Evolution of Plasma Potential in Pulsed Operation of ECRIS 93
 
  • O.A. Tarvainen, H. A. Koivisto, T. Ropponen, V.A. Toivanen
    JYFL, Jyväskylä, Finland
  • Y. Higurashi, T. Nakagawa
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
 
  The time evolution of plasma potential has been measured in pulsed operation mode with electron cyclotron resonance ion sources at JYFL and RIKEN. Three different ion sources with microwave frequencies ranging from 6.4 to 18 GHz were employed for the experiments. The plasma potential during the preglow and afterglow transients was compared with steady state conditions. The plasma potential was observed to increase 25-75 % during the preglow and 10-30 % during the afterglow. We describe the experimental procedure and present the results of the study in detail.  
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MOCOAK02 Intense Beam Production with SuSI 4
 
  • L.T. Sun, J. Brandon, D.G. Cole, M. Doleans, G. Machicoane, D. Morris, T. Ropponen, L. Tobos
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • E. Pozdeyev
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  SuSI ion source, a 3rd generation fully superconducting ECR ion source is now used for injection into the Coupled Cyclotron Facility since September 2009. Initial performances during the commissioning of SuSI were mainly limited by the microwave power available from a single 18 GHz microwave amplifier, especially for the production of heavier ion beams. The Injection of SuSI was modified to add a second 18 GHz amplifier, to reach a maximum of 3.0 kW of RF power inside the plasma chamber. Production of heavy ion beams, such as Kr14+, Bi30+ and U33+ is reported, to demonstrate the performance of SuSI. Additional studies were made with various ion source parameters to optimize the beam intensity within a normalized emittance of 0.9pi.mm.mrad as needed for the FRIB project and will be reported in this paper.  
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MOCOBK01 ECR Ion Sources for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Project at Michigan State University 14
 
  • G. Machicoane, M. Doleans, O.K. Kester, T. Ropponen, L.T. Sun, X. Wu
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • D. Leitner
    LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
  • E. Pozdeyev, E. Tanke
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by US DOE Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661
Once operational, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) will open the possibility to gain key understanding in nuclear science and in particular regarding the properties of nuclei far from the valley of stability or the nuclear processes in the universe. In addition it will also allow experimenters to test fundamental symmetries. The production of rare isotopes with FRIB will be achieved, using a heavy ion driver linac that will accelerate a stable isotope beam to 200 MeV/u and deliver it on a fragmentation target. FRIB aims to reach a primary beam power of 400 kW for light to heavy elements up to Uranium. To meet the intensity requirement two high performance ECR ion sources operating at 28 GHz will be used to produce high intensity of medium to high charge state ion beams. Plans regarding initial beam production with the ECR ion sources and beam transport through the front end will be discussed.
 
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MOPOT016 A Low Power Survey of Radial-Offset Axial Sputtering and High Intensity Uranium Production from Axial Sputtering in SuSI 69
 
  • D.G. Cole, G. Machicoane, T. Ropponen, L.T. Sun, L. Tobos
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  Prototype sputtering hardware has been tested in the SuSI ion source and early uranium ion production is discussed. Also, results of a low power survey of axial sputtering, to test sputtering efficiency at incremental radial offsets from on axis position, is reported.  
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WECOAK04 Bremsstrahlung and Ion Beam Current Measurements With SuSI ECR Ion Source 171
 
  • T. Ropponen, D.G. Cole, G. Machicoane, A. Stolz, L.T. Sun, L. Tobos
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  The Superconducting Source for Ions (SuSI) at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University is a fully superconducting 3rd generation ECR ion source. The axial magnetic field is generated by six solenoid magnets which allow to control the magnetic field characteristics, such as resonance locations, mirror ratios and magnetic field gradients, almost independently. In addition, a collimation scheme in the SuSI beam line after the analyzing magnet has been developed to optimize the ion beam production from the ion source within a given acceptance. These aspects make SuSI an excellent tool for ECRIS research and development. In this paper we will focus on the bremsstrahlung and ion beam current measurements where the gradient on the magnetic field is changed while keeping the Bmin and axial plasma length as constants. We will also show how the shift of the extraction side resonance location affects the extracted ion beam currents and radiation spectra and, finally, we will discuss about the effect of flatB mode with a modern superconducting ECR ion source on the ion beam production and radiation levels.  
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TUPOT010 Effects of Microwave Frequency Fine Tuning on the Performance of JYFL 14 GHz ECRIS 137
 
  • V.A. Toivanen, V.P. Aho, J. Ärje, P. Jones, J.A. Kauppinen, H. A. Koivisto, P. Peura, O.A. Tarvainen
    JYFL, Jyväskylä, Finland
  • L. Celona, G. Ciavola, S. Gammino
    INFN/LNS, Catania, Italy
  • A. Galatà
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
  • D. Mascali
    CSFNSM, Catania, Italy
  • T. Ropponen
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  Measurements have been carried out at Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä (JYFL) to study the effects of microwave frequency fine tuning on the performance of JYFL 14 GHz electron cyclotron resonance ion source. The frequency was varied within an 85 MHz band around the normal operation frequency of 14.085 GHz. The radial bremsstrahlung emission was measured for plasma diagnostics purposes and mass separated ion beam currents extracted from the ion source were recorded at the same time. Also, beam quality studies were conducted by measuring the ion beam emittance and shape with and without enhanced space charge compensation. The obtained results are presented and possible origins of seen phenomena in measured quantities are discussed.  
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