Beam experiments with the Grenoble test electron cyclotron resonance ion source at iThemba LABS

R Thomae; J Conradie; D Fourie; J Mira; F Nemulodi; D Kuechler; V Toivanen

doi:10.1063/1.4935630

Beam experiments with the Grenoble test electron cyclotron resonance ion source at iThemba LABS

Rev Sci Instrum. 2016 Feb;87(2):02A731. doi: 10.1063/1.4935630.

Authors

R Thomae¹, J Conradie¹, D Fourie¹, J Mira¹, F Nemulodi¹, D Kuechler², V Toivanen²

Affiliations

¹ iThemba LABS, P.O. Box 722, Somerset West 7130, South Africa.
² CERN, BE/ABP/HSL, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.

PMID: 26931949
DOI: 10.1063/1.4935630

Abstract

At iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences (iThemba LABS) an electron cyclotron ion source was installed and commissioned. This source is a copy of the Grenoble Test Source (GTS) for the production of highly charged ions. The source is similar to the GTS-LHC at CERN and named GTS2. A collaboration between the Accelerators and Beam Physics Group of CERN and the Accelerator and Engineering Department of iThemba LABS was proposed in which the development of high intensity argon and xenon beams is envisaged. In this paper, we present beam experiments with the GTS2 at iThemba LABS, in which the results of continuous wave and afterglow operation of xenon ion beams with oxygen as supporting gases are presented.

MeSH terms

Argon / chemistry*
Cyclotrons*
Electrons*
Oxygen / chemistry*
Xenon / chemistry*

Substances

Xenon
Argon
Oxygen