Arc-ecris

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ARC-ECRIS^[1][2] is an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source based on arc-shaped coils unlike the conventional^[3] ECRIS which bases on a multipole magnet inside a solenoid magnets (usually hexapole+solenoids). First time the arc-shaped coils were used already in 1960's in fusion physics experiements, for example at LLNL,USA (MFTF, Baseball II^[4],...) and later in Japan (GAMMA10,...). In 2006 the JYFL ion source group^[5] 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, First results with the yin-yang type electron cyclotron resonance ion source, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Volume 578, Issue 2, 1 August 2007, Pages 370-378
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3. ^ R. Geller, Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources and ECR Plasmas, Institute of Physics Publishing, London (1996) ISBN: 9780750301077
4. ^ http://www.llnl.gov/timeline/1970s/Highlights/baseball.html
5. ^ JYFL ion source group www pages

External links

• YouTube video of a conventional ECRIS plasma (hexapolar magnetic field)