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| MOPAB19 | Space-Charge Compensation of Intense Ion Beams by Nonneutral Plasma Columns | 67 |
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Gabor lenses were conceived to focus a passing ion beam using the electrical field of a confined nonneutral plasma column. Beside its application as focusing device, in Gabor lenses space-charge effects can be studied in detail. The influence of the electron distribution on emittance and space-charge dominated ion beams was investigated in beam transport experiments*. In this contribution we want to emphasize one result of these experiments. The measurements indicated a strong contribution of secondary electrons on beam dynamics. Secondary electrons are produced within the transport channel, particularly by interaction of the beam with the surface of the slit-grid emittance scanner. This might lead to an increase of the filling degree and to an improved focusing performance of the lens. Assuming that the loss and production rates within the lens volume and the transport channel determine the equilibrium state of the nonneutral plasma column, the electron cloud was characterized as a function of the external fields and the residual gas pressure in small-scale table top experiments. In this contribution experimental results will be presented in comparison with numerical simulations.
* K. Schulte, “Studies on the focusing performance of a Gabor lens depending on nonneutral plasma properties”, PhD thesis, 2013. |
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| WEO4LR02 | The Particle-in-Cell Code Bender and Its Application to Non-Relativistic Beam Transport | 304 |
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A new non-relativistic, electrostatic Particle-in-Cell code named bender has been implemented to facilitate the investigation of low-energy beam transport scenarios. In the case of high-intensity beams, space-charge compensation resulting from the accumulation of secondary particles - electrons for positively charged ion beams - is an important effect. It has been shown, that the distribution of compensation electrons can have a significant influence on the beam and lead to an emittance growth. To improve the understanding of the dynamics of the compensation and the resultant self-consistent steady state, ionization of residual gas as well as secondary electron production on surfaces have been implemented and used to study a number of test systems. We will present first results of these compensation studies as well as further applications of the code, among them the chopper section of the future FRANZ facility [1].
* C. Wiesner et al., Experimental Performance of an E×B Chopper System, Proc. of IPAC 2014, THPME015 |
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