Application of Traveling Wave Tubes (TWT) to ECRIS Plasmas

Author

Celona, L. ; Consoli, F. ; Ciavola, G. ; Gammino, S. ; Barbarino, S. ; Sorbello, G. ; Galata, A. ; Mascali, D.

Author_Institution

INFN-LNS, Catania

fYear

2005

fDate

20-23 June 2005

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

100

Abstract

Summary form only given. A remarkable increase of highly charged ion beam current was observed when the electron cyclotron resonance ion source SERSE used a traveling wave tube-based generator (TWT) in place of a klystron, usually coupled to plasma chamber to sustain the ECRIS plasma. The preliminary results obtained with a different ion source were confirmed by the systematic measurements carried out recently as described in the paper. The analysis of the signal emitted from the generators will be discussed along with a possible explanation of the phenomenon in terms of the depth of the potential well

Keywords

ion beams; plasma sources; plasma transport processes; travelling wave tubes; ECRIS plasmas; SERSE; TWT; charged ion beam current; electron cyclotron resonance ion source; klystron; potential well; traveling wave tubes; Cyclotrons; Electron beams; Ion beams; Ion sources; Klystrons; Plasma applications; Plasma measurements; Plasma sources; Plasma waves; Resonance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 2005. ICOPS '05. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9300-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2005.359046

Filename

4198305