The cooling of heavy ions can provide high-quality beams that are especially important for high-precisionexperimental nuclear and atomic physics. The laser cooling of relativistic C3+ ion beams at the experimental coolerstorage ring (CSRe) is being currently prepared at Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) in Lanzhou. An electroncyclotron resonance ion source (ECRIS) will be used to produce C3+ ion beams. Meanwhile, O4+ ions could alsobe produced due to residual gas because of the same mass-to-charge ratio. Therefore, both C3+ and O4+ ion beamswill be injected and circulate in a storage ring during the laser cooling experiment at the same time. A higher ratioof C3+ ions will lead to a better result for the laser cooling experiment.
研制了一套强流质子源及低能传输线(LEBT)注入器用于ADS质子直线加速器。质子源产生35 ke V强流束经过低能传输段聚焦进入射频四极(RFQ)入口。低能传输段不匹配是强流RFQ中引起束流丢失的主要原因。不同加速段的束流匹配是减少束流损失与抑制发射度增长的重要手段。束流损失导致RFQ电极表面受热变形进而引起高频打火,降低RFQ长期运行的稳定性。针对以上问题,研究LEBT发射度在不同的实验条件下如何实现加速器更好的匹配。研究结果表明,LEBT出口束流在35 ke V,10 m A下,束流发射度小于0.2πmm·mrad,当LEBT螺线管电流为210和270 A时,束流在RFQ入口满足匹配条件。
A combined unit, which has the ability to measure the current and emittance of the high intensity direct current(DC)ion beam, is developed at Peking University(PKU). It is a multi-slit single-wire(MSSW)-type beam emittance meter combined with a water-cooled Faraday Cup, named high intensity beam emittance measurement unit-6(HIBEMU-6). It takes about 15 seconds to complete one measurement of the beam current and its emittance. The emittance of a 50-mA@50-kV DC proton beam is measured.
对于低能强流离子束来说,空间电荷效应的存在将导致束流发散、发射度增加等一系列问题,从而降低束流品质。幸运的是,当束流由离子源引出通过低能传输线时会与其中的剩余气体发生电离反应,产生二次电子与二次离子;二次电子在束流自身产生的电场作用下,在束流中积累并中和部分空间电荷,达到抑制空间电荷效应的效果。为了测量空间电荷中和程度,中国科学院近代物理研究所研制了一台三栅网式能量分析仪用以测量电离过程中产生的二次离子能量来间接计算空间电荷中和度。实验结果表明,对于40 ke V,18.5 m A的质子束,真空度为1.5×10-3Pa时得到最佳补偿度;真空度一定的情况下,空间电荷补偿度随束流流强增加而变大。
This paper describes a long-term operation of the 2.45-GHz microwave proton source at Peking University. The DC proton beam of 50–55 m A with energy of 35 ke V has been run for 306 hours continuously. Total beam availability,defined as 35-ke V beam-on time divided by elapsed time, is higher than 99%. Water cooling machine failures cause all the downtime, and no plasma generator failure or high voltage breakdown is observed. The longest uninterrupted run time is122 hours.
