Adjustable ECR Ion Source Control System: Ion Source Hydrogen Positive Project

Author

Arredondo, I. ; Eguiraun, M. ; Jugo, J. ; Piso, D. ; del Campo, M. ; Poggi, T. ; Varnasseri, S. ; Feuchtwanger, J. ; Bilbao, J. ; Gonzalez, X. ; Harper, G. ; Muguira, L. ; Miracoli, R. ; Corres, J. ; Belver, D. ; Echevarria, P. ; Garmendia, N. ; Gonzalez,

Author_Institution

ESS Bilbao, Leioa, Spain

Volume

62

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

42156

Firstpage

903

Lastpage

910

Abstract

ISHP (Ion Source Hydrogen Positive) project consists of a highly versatile ECR type ion source. It has been built for several purposes, on the one hand, to serve as a workbench to test accelerator related technologies and validate in-house made developments, at the first stages. On the other hand, to design an ion source valid as the first step in an actual LINAC. Since this paper is focused on the control system of ISHP, besides the ion source, all the hardware and its control architecture is presented. Nowadays the ion source is able to generate a pulse of positive ions of Hydrogen from 2 μs to a few ms range with a repetition rate ranging from 1 Hz to 50 Hz with a maximum of 45 mA of current. Furthermore, the first experiments with White Rabbit (WR) synchronization system are presented.

Keywords

ion sources; linear accelerators; plasma accelerators; plasma radiofrequency heating; ECR ion source control system; White Rabbit synchronization system; accelerator related technologies; ion source hydrogen positive project; linac; Control systems; Hardware; Ion sources; Particle beam measurements; Particle beams; Plasmas; Radio frequency; Decentralized control; ion sources;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2015.2432036

Filename

7119617