• P. Kolb, N. Mueller, A. Schempp
  IAP, Frankfurt am Main

The goal of the Frankfurt Funneling Experiment is to multiply beam currents by merging two low energy ion beams. In an ideal case this would be done without any emittance growth. Our setup consists of two ion sources, a Two-Beam-RFQ accelerator and a multi cell deflector which bends the beams to one common beam axis. Current work is the design of a new beam transport system between RFQ accelerator and deflector. With extended RFQ-electrodes the drift between the Two-Beam-RFQ and the rf-deflector will be minimized and therefor unwanted emittance growth prohibited. First rf measurements with a scaled experiment will be presented.

• N. Mueller, U. Bartz, D. Ficek, P. Kolb, J.M. Maus, A. Schempp, M. Vossberg
  IAP, Frankfurt am Main

Funneling is a method to increase low energy beam currents in multiple stages. The Frankfurt Funneling Experiment is a model of such a stage. The experiment is built up of two ion sources with a electrostatic lens systems, a Two-Beam RFQ accelerator, a funneling deflector and a beam diagnostic system. The two beams are bunched and accelerated in a Two-Beam RFQ and the last parts of the RFQ electrodes achieve a 3d focus at the crossing point of the two beam axis. A funneling deflector combines the bunches to a common beam axis. The optimized ion sources are adapted to the front end bunching section. Recent funneling measurements with the one-gap and the multi-gap deflector will be presented.