Towards 20 A negative hydrogen ion beams for up to 1 h: Achievements of the ELISE test facility (invited)
- 9 October 2015
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 87 (2) , 02B307
Abstract
The large-scale RF-driven ion source of the test facility extraction from a large ion source experiment is aimed to deliver an accelerated ion current of 20 A D− (23 A H−) with an extracted electron-to-ion ratio below one for up to 1 h. Since the first plasma pulses for 20 s in volume operation in early 2013, followed by caesiation of the ion source, substantial progress has been achieved in extending the pulse length and the RF power. The record pulses in hydrogen are stable 400 s pulses with an extracted ion current of 18.3 A at 180 kW total RF power and 9.3 A at 80 kW stable for 1 h. For deuterium pulse, length and RF power are limited by the amount of co-extracted electrons.Keywords
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