Author: Steiner, J.
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THPWO010 Charge Stripping Tests of High Current Uranium Ion Beams with Methane and Hydrogen Gas Strippers and Carbon Foils at the GSI UNILAC 3779
 
  • B. Schlitt, W.A. Barth, G. Clemente, L. Groening, M. Kaiser, B. Lommel, M.T. Maier, S. Mickat, J. Steiner, H. Vormann
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  
  At the GSI UNI­LAC, a ni­tro­gen gas strip­per is rou­tinely used for strip­ping of heavy ion beams at 1.4 MeV/u. Dif­fer­ent ap­proaches to op­ti­mize the strip­ping ef­fi­ciency as well as dif­fer­ent op­tions to in­crease the ion charge states for de­liv­ery to SIS18 are being in­ves­ti­gated. The ex­ist­ing gas strip­per was op­er­ated with methane and hy­dro­gen gas for strip­ping of high cur­rent ura­nium ion beams. The re­sults as well as the lim­i­ta­tions of these tests will be pre­sented and will be com­pared to stan­dard ni­tro­gen op­er­a­tion of the gas strip­per. In ad­di­tion, newest re­sults using dif­fer­ently pre­pared car­bon strip­ping foils for the same ion beams will be re­ported.