Development of a gas jet coupled electron cyclotron resonance ion source for radioactive ion beam

Mahuwa Bhattacharjee; Chinmay Giri; Syed Masum; Sunita Hansda; Sulagna Mitra; Sanket Haque; Pratanu Chakraborty; Siddhartha Dechoudhury; Ayan Ray; Manas Mondal; Balram Kumar Nayan; Vinay Shukla; Dirtha Sanyal; Arup Bandyopadhyay; Vaishali Naik

doi:10.1063/5.0181604

Development of a gas jet coupled electron cyclotron resonance ion source for radioactive ion beam

Rev Sci Instrum. 2024 Feb 1;95(2):023302. doi: 10.1063/5.0181604.

Authors

Mahuwa Bhattacharjee^{1

2}, Chinmay Giri¹, Syed Masum¹, Sunita Hansda¹, Sulagna Mitra¹, Sanket Haque¹, Pratanu Chakraborty¹, Siddhartha Dechoudhury^{1

2}, Ayan Ray^{1

2}, Manas Mondal¹, Balram Kumar Nayan¹, Vinay Shukla², Dirtha Sanyal^{1

2}, Arup Bandyopadhyay^{1

2}, Vaishali Naik^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
² Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

PMID: 38341724
DOI: 10.1063/5.0181604

Abstract

A 2.45 GHz electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source coupled to a gas-jet skimmer system has been developed for the online production of radioactive ion beams (RIBs). Using radial injection of gas jet in the ion source, RIBs of 11C1+, 11CO21+, and 11CO1+ have been produced online with beam intensity up to about 9 × 103 particles per second for a 1 µA primary proton beam bombarding a nitrogen gas target. The details of the gas jet coupled ECR ion source and the results for stable isotope beams and RIBs are reported.