Liquid metal ion source assembly for external ion injection into an electron string ion source (ESIS)

M J Segal; R A Bark; R Thomae; E E Donets; E D Donets; A Boytsov; D Ponkin; A Ramsdorf

doi:10.1063/1.4935974

Liquid metal ion source assembly for external ion injection into an electron string ion source (ESIS)

Rev Sci Instrum. 2016 Feb;87(2):02A913. doi: 10.1063/1.4935974.

Authors

M J Segal¹, R A Bark¹, R Thomae¹, E E Donets², E D Donets², A Boytsov², D Ponkin², A Ramsdorf²

Affiliations

¹ iThemba LABS, P.O. Box 722, Somerset West 7130, South Africa.
² Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Joloit-Curie 6, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia.

PMID: 26931974
DOI: 10.1063/1.4935974

Abstract

An assembly for a commercial Ga(+) liquid metal ion source in combination with an ion transportation and focusing system, a pulse high-voltage quadrupole deflector, and a beam diagnostics system has been constructed in the framework of the iThemba LABS (Cape Town, South Africa)-JINR (Dubna, Russia) collaboration. First, results on Ga(+) ion beam commissioning will be presented. Outlook of further experiments for measurements of charge breeding efficiency in the electron string ion source with the use of external injection of Ga(+) and Au(+) ion beams will be reported as well.