Author: May, D.P.
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TUPP05 Charge-breeding at the Texas A&M University Cyclotron Institute 51
 
  • D.P. May
    Texas A&M University Cyclotron Institute, College Station, Texas, USA
  • J.E. Ärje
    JYFL, Jyväskylä, Finland
  • G. Tabacaru
    Texas A&M University, Cyclotron Institute, College Station, USA
 
  The Cyclotron Institute of Texas A&M University is currently involved in an upgrade that is intended to produce beams of radioactive ions suitable for injection into the K500 superconducting cyclotron. As an integral part of this upgrade an electron-cyclotron-resonance ion source (CB-ECRIS) has been specially constructed by Scientific Solutions of San Diego, California for charge-breeding. This CB-ECRIS operates at 14.5 GHz and incorporates a hexapole of the Halbach style. Since radial injection of microwave power is ruled out, this presents special problems for the axial injection of low-charge-state ions for charge-breeding. Efforts at charge-breeding with stable ions will be presented as well as plans for the injection of low-charge-state, radioactive ions from cyclotron-driven ion guides, one for light radioactive ions and one for heavy radioactive ions.