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Development of a compact ECR ion source for various ion production
- Source :
- Review of Scientific Instruments. 87:02C110
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2016.
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Abstract
- There is a desire that a carbon-ion radiotherapy facility will produce various ion species for fundamental research. Although the present Kei2-type ion sources are dedicated for the carbon-ion production, a future ion source is expected that could provide: (1) carbon-ion production for medical use, (2) various ions with a charge-to-mass ratio of 1/3 for the existing Linac injector, and (3) low cost for modification. A prototype compact electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source, named Kei3, based on the Kei series has been developed to correspond to the Kei2 type and to produce these various ions at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS). The Kei3 has an outer diameter of 280 mm and a length of 1120 mm. The magnetic field is formed by the same permanent magnet as Kei2. The movable extraction electrode has been installed in order to optimize the beam extraction with various current densities. The gas-injection side of the vacuum chamber has enough space for an oven system. We measured dependence of microwave frequency, extraction voltage, and puller position. Charge state distributions of helium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and neon were also measured.
- Subjects :
- Ions
010302 applied physics
Materials science
Radiotherapy
chemistry.chemical_element
Ion gun
01 natural sciences
Carbon
Linear particle accelerator
Ion source
Electron cyclotron resonance
010305 fluids & plasmas
Ion
Neon
Magnetic Fields
chemistry
0103 physical sciences
Vacuum chamber
Atomic physics
Instrumentation
Microwave
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10897623 and 00346748
- Volume :
- 87
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Review of Scientific Instruments
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fd99489ae03bae59a0537dff04f8f55e