Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima
Osaka University, Graduate School of Science, Osaka
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
Space charge effects due to the strong Coulomb interactions expected in high intensity accelerator beams result in undesirable beam degradation and radio-activation of the vacuum tubes through halo formations. Various space charge effects have been studied intensively with particle simulations. This is partly because the analytical formulation of the nonlinear evolution in high intensity beams is not possible in general cases. And the systematic study of space charge effects with the real accelerators is not feasible. Although the development of computation environment is outstanding, some approximations are still necessary so far. Thus, it was proposed to use solenoid traps and linear Paul traps for investigating some properties of space charge dominated beams. The key idea is that the charged particles in these traps are physically equivalent with a beam in a FODO lattice. Some experimental results have been reported with the use of Paul traps. Here, a solenoid trap with a beam imaging system composed of a charge coupled device camera and a phosphor screen was employed to study the mismatch induced oscillations of a space charge dominated beams.
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima
LLNL, Livermore, California
S-POD (Simulator for Particle Orbit Dynamics) is a tabletop, non-neutral plasma trap system developed at Hiroshima University for fundamental beam physics studies. The main components of S-POD include a compact radio-frequency quadrupole trap, various AC and DC power supplies, a vacuum system, a laser cooler, several diagnostics, and a comprehensive computer control system. A large number of ions, produced through the electron bombardment process, are captured and confined in the RFQ trap to emulate collective phenomena in space-charge-dominated beams traveling in periodic linear focusing lattices. This unique experiment is based on the isomorphism between a one-component plasma in the laboratory frame and a charged-particle beam in the center-of-mass frame. We here employ S-POD to explore the coherent betatron resonance instability which is an important issue in modern high-power accelerators. Ion loss behaviors and transverse plasma profiles are measured under various conditions to identify the parameter-dependence of resonance stopbands. Experimental observations are compared with PIC simulation results obtained with the WARP code.
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
KEK, Ibaraki
A NEA-GaAs photocathode is an important component for the next generation light source based on the ERL. Although the NEA-GaAs cathode has high quantum efficiency, deterioration of the NEA surface becomes serious with a high current operation. Therefore improvement of a vacuum in the cathode chamber is essential to get a long lifetime of the NEA-GaAs cathode. We are developing a photocathode test bench consisting of titanium (TP340) chamber, whose outgas rate is 1/1000 smaller than one of a SUS chamber, a cryo-pump (4000l/s) and a NEG pump (1900l/s). We report mainly the vacuum performance of the system.
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
Hiroshima University, Faculty of Science, Higashi-Hirosima
An ion plasma confined in a compact trap system is Coulomb crystallized near the absolute zero temperature. The emittance of the crystallized ion plasma is close to the ultimate limit, far below those of any regular ion beams. This implies that, if we can somehow accelerate a crystal without serious heating, an ion beam of extremely low emittance becomes available*. Such ultra-low emittance beams, even if the current is low, can be used for diverse purposes including precise single ion implantation to various materials and for systematic studies of radiation damage effects on semiconductors and bio-molecules. We performed proof-of-principle experiments on the extraction of Coulomb crystals from a linear Paul trap system developed at Hiroshima University. A string crystal of 40Ca+ ions is produced with the Doppler laser cooling technique and then extracted by switching DC potentials on the trap electrodes. We demonstrate that it is possible to transport the ultra-low temperature ion chain keeping its ordered configuration.
* M. Kano et al., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 73, No.3, 760 (2004).
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
LLNL, Livermore, California
Resonant instabilities of ion plasmas confined in a linear Paul trap are studied using the particle-in-cell code WARP. Transverse two-dimensional model is employed to save computing time and perform systematic investigations. Both applied and self-field forces are calculated with a boundary condition assuming a quadrupole electrode structure. A large number of simulations were carried out with rms matched plasmas to clarify characteristics of the instability caused by linear and nonlinear coherent resonances. Stop band distributions produced by the simulation runs are consistent with theoretical prediction. These results are also compared to experimental results obtained from Hiroshima University Paul trap that is developed to study beam dynamics. It is shown that the stop band distributions of both numerical and experimental results are good agreement each other. We confirmed from these results that coherent resonances are excited when one of the coherent tunes is close to a half integer.