EBIS charge breeder for CARIBU

S Kondrashev; A Barcikowski; C Dickerson; R Fischer; P N Ostroumov; R Vondrasek; A Pikin

doi:10.1063/1.4824645

EBIS charge breeder for CARIBU

Rev Sci Instrum. 2014 Feb;85(2):02B901. doi: 10.1063/1.4824645.

Authors

S Kondrashev¹, A Barcikowski¹, C Dickerson¹, R Fischer¹, P N Ostroumov¹, R Vondrasek¹, A Pikin²

Affiliations

¹ Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
² Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.

PMID: 24593606
DOI: 10.1063/1.4824645

Abstract

A high-efficiency charge breeder based on an Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS) is being developed by the ANL Physics Division to increase the intensity and improve the purity of accelerated radioactive ion beams. A wide variety of low-energy neutron-rich ion beams are produced by the Californium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) for the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS). These beams will be charge-bred by an EBIS charge breeder to a charge-to-mass ratio (q/A) ≥ 1/7 and accelerated by ATLAS to energies of about 10 MeV/u. The assembly of the CARIBU EBIS charge breeder except the injection/extraction beam lines has been completed. This summer we started electron beam commissioning of the EBIS. The first results on electron beam extraction, transport from the electron gun to a high power electron collector are presented and discussed.