ARC-ECRIS

ARC-ECRIS[1] is an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source based on arc-shaped coils unlike the conventional[2] ECRIS which bases on a multipole magnet (usually a hexapole magnet) inside a solenoid magnet. First time the arc-shaped coils were used already in the 1960s in fusion experiments, for example at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (MFTF, Baseball II,[3] ...) and later in Japan (GAMMA10, ...). In 2006 the JYFL ion source group[4] designed, constructed and tested similar plasma trap to produce highly charged heavy ion beams. The first tests were promising and showed that a stable plasma can be confined in an arc-coil magnetic field structure (see references).

References

  1. ^ P. Suominen, T. Ropponen and H. Koivisto (2007). "First results with the yin-yang type electron cyclotron resonance ion source". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 578 (2): 370–378. Bibcode 2007NIMPA.578..370S. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2007.05.324. 
  2. ^ R. Geller (1996). Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources and ECR Plasmas. Institute of Physics Publishing. ISBN 9780750301077. 
  3. ^ "On the frontier of missile defense technology". Newsline (LLNL) 27 (20): 3. 2002. https://publicaffairs.llnl.gov/employee/articles/2002/05.17.02-newsline.pdf. 
  4. ^ "JYFL Ion Source Group". http://www.jyu.fi/science/laitokset/fysiikka/en/research/accelerator/ionsources/. Retrieved 2009-06-02. 

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