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TH6PFP082 | Formation of a Uniform Ion Beam Using Multipole Magnets | 3895 |
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It is possible to fold the tails of the transverse beam profile into the inside, or even to uniformize the beam distribution in the properly-designed nonlinear beam transport system. A two-dimensionally uniform beam profile was formed using sextupole and octupole magnets at the azimuthally-varying-field cyclotron facility of Japan Atomic Energy Agency. Such a uniform beam exhibits a unique feature in the viewpoint of a uniform irradiation system; as compared to the raster scanning system, it enables us to perform uniform irradiation over the whole area of a large sample at a constant particle fluence rate. For the application of materials sciences, uniformization of heavy-ion beams as well as protons has been performed. In order to reduce undesirable beam halos at the target, tail-folding of the spot beam is also planed using the nonlinear focusing method. |